Electric Thruster for Spacecraft with Mass up to 1500 kg
Glavkosmos
An electric thruster designed for spacecraft up to 1500 kg, offering high specific impulse at relatively low power and a long service life.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Mass
- 3.1 kg
- Power
- 930 W
- Thrust
- 0.042 N
- Specific impulse
- 1,860 s
- Design life
- 15 years
- Lead time
- 12 months
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
- Purpose
- Propulsion system of spacecraft by mass up to 1500 kg.
- Year of release
- 2012
- Design life
- 15 (GSO) years
- Lead time
- 12 months
- Flight qualification of the product
- Yes
- Brief history of flight qualification
- Operated as part of the motor subsystem correction since 2014.
- Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements
- Yes
- Thrust
- 42 mN
- Power
- < 0.93 kW
- Specific impulse
- 1860 s
- Mass
- 3.1 kg
- Designed service life
- > 4000 hours
About
This electric thruster is a propulsion system specifically designed for spacecraft with a mass of up to 1500 kg. Released in 2012, it boasts a guaranteed service life of 15 years for Geostationary Orbit (GSO) applications. The product is flight qualified, having been operated as part of a motor subsystem correction since 2014. It features high specific impulse at relatively low power consumption and has a record number of burnings, up to 20,000 cycles. The estimated production and delivery time is 12 months, and the product can be adapted to meet specific customer requirements. Its designed service life is greater than 4000 hours.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.