PBI Water Ion Thruster
Pale Blue
Miniaturized gridded ion thruster using water propellant, offering unprecedented total impulse in a 1U+ form factor for NanoSats and MicroSats.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Mass
- 1.6 kg
- Power
- 60 W
- Thrust
- 0 N
- Total impulse
- 7,000 N·s
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
- Power
- < 60 W
- Thrust
- > 0.35 mN
- Total impulse
- > 7,000 Ns
- Wet mass
- < 1.6 kg
- Envelope
- 1U+
- Communication interface
- RS-422
- Propellant
- Water (no high-pressure storage required)
About
Pale Blue PBI is a miniaturized gridded ion thruster that delivers unprecedented total impulse (>7,000 Ns) in a 1U+ form factor. It is a fully integrated system incorporating the thruster head, fluidics, electronics, and propellant tank, and is clusterable to scale to a wide range of spacecraft sizes. The PBI uses water as propellant — no high-pressure storage is required — and the propellant is preloaded at the factory so that satellite integrators do not need to perform propellant loading operations after integration, eliminating launch-site fueling work. Designed for NanoSats and MicroSats, PBI enables high-delta-V missions in a compact, safe package.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.