High-powered Electric Thruster for Spacecraft with Mass up to 3000 kg
Glavkosmos
This is a high-powered, multimode electric thruster designed for spacecraft up to 3000 kg, featuring W-Ba emitter cathodes.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Mass
- 8 kg
- Power
- 3,500 W
- Thrust
- 0.2 N
- Specific impulse
- 1,700 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 3000 kg.
- Year of release
- 2001
- Design life
- 15 (GSO) years
- Lead time
- 12 months
- Flight qualification of the product
- No
- Brief history of flight qualification
- Qualification model.
- Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements
- Yes
- Thrust
- 200 / 380 mN
- Power
- 3.5 / 6.0 kW
- Specific impulse
- 1700 / 2650 s
- Mass
- 8 kg
- Designed service life
- > 6000 hours
About
This high-powered electric thruster serves as a propulsion system for spacecraft with a mass of up to 3000 kg. It is a multimode thruster utilizing cathodes based on W-Ba emitters. The product was released in 2001 and offers a guaranteed service life of 15 years for Geostationary Orbit (GSO) applications. Although it is a qualification model and does not yet have flight qualification, there is a possibility to adapt the product to specific customer requirements. The estimated production or delivery time is 12 months. Key performance parameters include a thrust range of 200 to 380 mN, power consumption between 3.5 and 6.0 kW, and a specific impulse ranging from 1700 to 2650 seconds. The thruster has a mass of 8 kg and a designed service life exceeding 6000 hours.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.