BHT-100
Busek Co.
Compact and versatile, the BHT-100 Hall Thruster is precisely engineered for leading-edge propulsion to enable a new class of spacecraft missions.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Power
- 100 W
- Thrust
- 0.007 N
- Specific impulse
- 1,000 s
- Total impulse
- 250,000 N·s
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Input Power
- 100 W
- Thrust
- 7 mN
- Specific Impulse
- 1000 s
- Demonstrated Impulse
- 45 kN⋅s
- Total Impulse
- >250 kN⋅s
About
The BHT-100 is a compact and versatile Hall thruster, precisely engineered to provide leading-edge propulsion for a new class of spacecraft missions. It offers scalable solutions for various applications, generating thrust by creating and accelerating ionized gas via an electric field. Confined within a finely shaped magnetic field, electrons gyrorotate within the channel until they ionize a neutral atom. The ionized plasma is then accelerated by the electric field to exhaust velocities of greater than 25,000 m/s. With no moving mechanical parts and a simple electrical layout, Hall thrusters like the BHT-100 are extremely reliable, with no on-orbit thruster failures reported to date. This high specific impulse leverages the nonlinear nature of the rocket equation, leading to exponential improvement in spacecraft mass ratio.
Documentation
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