Water Ion Thruster - 1U
Overview
Pale Blue's Water Ion Thruster is a low pressure, low power propulsion unit with a scalable water tank and a redundant flow control system. It features hollow cathodes and electrodes for enhanced lifetime of the overall system. It features both UART and RS422 command interfaces.
Overview
- Name
- Water Ion Thruster - 1U
- Vendor
- Pale Blue
- Subsystem
- Propulsion Subsystem
- Component Type
- Electric Propulsion System
- Form Factor
- CubeSat
- Heritage
- N/A
Vendor Details
- Name
- Pale Blue
- Website
- https://pale-blue.co.jp/
- Founded
- 2020
- Summary
- Pale Blue is a Japanese space company that seeks to achieve sustainable space development around and beyond the Earth. Our first step is making satellite operations safer and more sustainable. Space is already one of the most inhospitable environments we know of, and while we continue to work with propellants like hydrazine that is incredibly toxic to humans, space will never become truly accessible to humans in a widespread way unless we make it safer Pale Blue seeks to fix this problem by introducing a way to power spacecraft using the world's safest and most abundant element, water.
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Specifications
- Subsystem
- Propulsion Subsystem
- Component Type
- Electric Propulsion System
- Form Factor
- CubeSat
- Vendor
- Pale Blue
- Dry Mass
- 1.6 kg
- Average Power
- 42.0 W
- Heritage
- N/A
- Status
- In Production
