ExoTerra Wins NASA Phase II SBIR Award (flight qualification)

July 25, 2019. Littleton, CO.

ExoTerra has been awarded a NASA Phase II SBIR to flight qualify a Micro Electric Propulsion module.  The module is designed to package within 9U and deliver >36 kNs of total impulse to a CubeSat.  The system uses ExoTerra’s Halo Hall Effect thruster operating at a power as low as 135W.  The modular package has a wet mass of <11 kg and easily mounts to CubeSats to provide up to 1.8 km/s of delta-V to a 27U satellite for dispersion from rideshare drop-offs, orbit optimization, or deorbit.