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Stationary Plasma Thruster with a Discharge Power of up to 6 kW

  • Purpose: Spacecraft station keeping. Spacecraft orbit raising to GEO
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Guaranteed service life (years): 35000 hours 7000 cycles
  • Estimated production / delivery time (months): 12
  • Flight qualification of the product: No
  • Brief history of flight qualification: None
  • Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements: Yes
ParameterValue
Discharge power4500/6000 W
Discharge voltage300/600 V
Discharge current15.0/10.0 A
Thrust290/250 mN
Specific impulse1850/2400 s
Efficiency60%
Specific power555/741 W/kg
Power-to-thrust ratio15.5/24 W/mN
Total impulse> 20 MN∙s
Mass8.1 kg

Thruster with a discharge power of up to 6 kW.
Propellant - xenon.
Development status – laboratory model.
Consists of the anode and cathode units.
Classical scheme of the magnetic system with magnetic screens.
Outside diameter of the accelerating channel is 140 mm. Mean diameter of the accelerating channel is 120 mm.
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).