BHT-200
Busek Co.
The BHT-200 is a high-performance, mature Hall effect thruster with flight heritage, designed for spacecraft propulsion and capable of operating with various propellants including iodine.
Typed specifications17 values
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- Propulsion family
- electric datasheet p.1
- Mass
- 120 g Cathode Mass · datasheet p.1 980 g Thruster Mass
- Thrust
- 13 mN datasheet p.1
- Specific impulse
- 1 390 s datasheet p.1
- Total impulse
- 74 880 N·s Demonstrated Impulse · datasheet p.1 140 000 N·s min · predicted (>140) | 140 000 N·s min · Predicted Total Impulse
- Propellant
- Xenon, Iodine datasheet p.1 iodine
- Supply voltage
- 250 V datasheet p.1
- Power consumption
- 200 W product page
- Thruster technology
- Hall effect datasheet p.1
- Power at thrust
- 200 W Discharge Power · datasheet p.1
- Flight heritage
- TacSat-2, FalconSat-5, FalconSat-6 datasheet p.1
- Missions flown
- 3 datasheet p.1
- Discharge (anode) voltage
- 250 V datasheet p.1
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As published by the supplier7 lines, in the manufacturer's own wording
- Specific impulse
- 1390 seconds
- Demonstrated impulse
- 74.88 kN⋅s
- Predicted total impulse
- >140 kN⋅s
- Discharge power
- 200 W
- Supply voltage
- 250 VDC
- Thrust
- 13 mN
- Flight heritage
- TacSat-2, FalconSat-5, FalconSat-6
About
The BHT-200 is a high-performance and mature Hall effect thruster with significant flight heritage, having flown aboard the Air Force Research Laboratory’s TacSat-2 and FalconSat-5 satellites, and currently operating on-orbit on the FalconSat-6 satellite. It holds the distinction of being the first US-designed and US-built Hall Effect thruster used in-space on operational satellites. The thruster is extensively studied, with numerous technical papers and journal publications detailing its performance and characteristics. Busek offers the BHT-200 as a complete and fully integrated Hall Effect thruster system, which can include a cathode, power processing unit (PPU), digital control unit (DCU), and propellant management systems. The system components are a blend of commercially sourced parts with established flight heritage and in-house produced assemblies and electronics, optimized for maximum performance and lifetime. Over 20 units of the BHT-200 have been manufactured and delivered for various characterization studies, plume analyses, clustering efforts, and modeling. Busek has also delivered iodine-compatible versions of the thruster for the MSFC iSat mission, demonstrating its versatility with different propellants.
Documentation
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