BHT-1500 Hall Effect Thruster
Busek Co.
2kW-class Hall effect thruster with center-mounted cathode for small-to-medium class satellites.
Technical specifications
- Nominal Discharge Power
- 1,500 W
- Discharge Power Range
- 1,000-2,700 W
- Nominal Thrust
- 101 mN (Xe)
- Propellants
- Xenon, Krypton, Iodine
- Nominal Specific Impulse
- 1710 s
- Predicted Total Impulse
- > 6.5 MN·s
- Orbit-raising mode
- >120 mN thrust, 1700 s Isp at 1800 W
- Station-keeping mode
- >100 mN thrust, 1900 s Isp
About
The BHT-1500 is a 2kW-class Hall Effect thruster featuring an innovative center-mounted cathode, a two-piece “composite” anode, and a shortened dielectric channel. The internally mounted cathode improves performance, reduces sensitivity to cathode flow rate and vacuum facility background pressure, and lowers plume divergence. Independent testing at The Aerospace Corporation showed 10% higher specific impulse and 15% higher thrust efficiency than the nearest competing HET product, translating into significant launch mass savings for GEO communications satellites.
Documentation
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