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Modified Stationary Plasma Thruster with a Nominal Discharge Power of 1350 W

  • Purpose: Spacecraft station keeping.Spacecraft orbit raising to GEO.
  • Year of release: 2012
  • Guaranteed service life (years): 12000 hours 5000 cycles
  • Estimated production / delivery time (months): 10
  • Flight qualification of the product: No
  • Brief history of flight qualification: None
  • Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements: Yes
ParameterValue
Discharge power1350 W
Discharge voltage300 V
Discharge current4.5 A
Thrust92 mN
Specific impulse1700 s
Efficiency52%
Specific power329 W/kg
Power-to-thrust ratio14.7 W/mN
Total impulse> 4.5 MN∙s
Mass4.1 kg

Thruster with a nominal discharge power of 1350 W.
Propellant - xenon.
Consists of the anode and cathode units.
Classical scheme of the magnetic system with magnetic screens and four external magnetic coils. Outside diameter of the accelerating channel is 100 mm. Mean diameter of the accelerating channel is 85 mm.
Plume divergence half-angle (90% of ion current) is 30°.
New structural materials and components

Remark

Manufacturing lead time is given without taking into account the time needed to procure materials (4 months) and procured parts and components (6 months).