Busek BHT-600 Hall Effect Thruster
Busek Co.
Mature 600W Hall effect thruster for ESPA-class spacecraft, life-tested >7000 hrs at NASA Glenn, direct-mount or gimballed, 39mN thrust.
Technical specifications
- Nominal Discharge Power
- 600 W
- Discharge Power Range
- 300-800 W
- Thrust
- 39 mN (Xe)
- Propellants
- Xenon, Krypton, Iodine
- Specific Impulse
- Up to 1500 s
- Demonstrated Impulse
- 1.0 MN·s
- Predicted Total Impulse
- > 1.5 MN·s
- Life Test
- 7,198 hours (NASA GRC)
About
The Busek BHT-600 is a mature, high-performance, long-life propulsion system compatible with flight-proven heritage cathodes, power processing units, and feed systems. Especially well suited for ESPA-class spacecraft. Available as direct mount, 1-axis gimballed, or 2-axis gimballed, providing attitude control for reaction wheel desaturation and reducing the mass needed for a separate chemical ACS. A BHT-600 engineering model at NASA Glenn Research Center accumulated 7,198 hours of operation without discernible performance drop.
Documentation
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