Rigel 500
Tesseract
The Rigel 500 is a bipropellant thruster offered by Tesseract Space, designed for SmallSat propulsion subsystems.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Mass
- 3.5 kg
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
- Name
- Rigel 500
- Vendor
- Tesseract Space
- Subsystem
- Propulsion Subsystem
- Component type
- Bipropellant Thruster
- Form factor
- SmallSat
- Subsystem (2)
- Propulsion Subsystem
- Component type (2)
- Bipropellant Thruster
- Form factor (2)
- SmallSat
- Vendor (2)
- Tesseract Space
- Dry mass
- 3.5 kg
- Status
- In Production
About
Tesseract Space offers the Rigel 500, a bipropellant thruster, as part of custom turn-key spacecraft propulsion systems. These systems can include propellant tankage, plumbing, control electronics, and ancillary structure. Tesseract Space has expertise in chemical propulsion across various thrust classes and propellant types, including both storable and cryogenic options. They provide flexible options for licensing and ownership of the design intellectual property, and can offer either development-only or development and manufacturing services. The Rigel 500 is specifically categorized as a bipropellant thruster for SmallSat form factors and is currently in production.
Documentation
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