ExoTerra Resource, founded in 2011, is a space technology company specializing in affordable space infrastructure systems, including high-performance power and propulsion components, subsystems, and fully integrated buses for CubeSats and small satellites. (2, 5) Their key products include Halo Hall effect thrusters, power distribution units, propellant management systems, and Courier SEP buses, designed to reduce the cost of space exploration. (4, 8) ExoTerra has received investments from organizations such as LAGO Innovation Fund and the United States Department of Defense, and aims to produce up to 32 propulsion modules per month. (2, 4)
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ExoTerra recently opened a 3,500-square-meter facility near its Littleton, Colorado headquarters.
ExoTerra, founded in 2011, designs, manufactures, and tests electric propulsion elements for small satellites.
ExoTerra Resources, a Colorado-based company, raised $8,000,000 to expand production of microsatellite propulsion systems.
ExoTerra’s Halo Hall-effect thrusters fired in orbit for the first time in 2023 on DARPA Blackjack Aces satellites manufactured by RTX subsidiary Blue Canyon Technologies.
ExoTerra’s new 3,500-square-meter facility is designed for production of 32 propulsion modules per month.
The Lago Innovation Fund, which is part of Lago Asset Management, supplied the $8,000,000 funding to ExoTerra Resources.
ExoTerra Resources was founded in 2011 and designs, manufactures, and tests electric propulsion elements for small satellites.
ExoTerra’s Halo12 Hall-effect thruster-based electric propulsion subsystem delivers industry-leading performance for small satellites and enables extremely high-ΔV missions.
The solar-electric transfer vehicle concept under study with ExoTerra could carry up to 180 kg to geostationary orbit and 150 kg to cislunar trajectories.
ExoTerra Resources’ Littleton facility has manufacturing capacity to produce 200 propulsion units per year in addition to solar arrays and radiation-tolerant electronic control systems.
ExoTerra Resources expects its thrusters to fly on two Blue Canyon Blackjack satellites scheduled to launch in 2022.
ExoTerra Resources is preparing a 2022 flight test of a 12-unit cubesat equipped with a compact, high-impulse solar electric propulsion module.
Blue Canyon Technologies selected ExoTerra Resources to provide electric propulsion for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Blackjack Phase 2 and Phase 3 satellites.
ExoTerra’s Solar Electric Propulsion Upper Stage is designed to transport 180-kilogram payloads to geostationary orbit.
NASA awarded ExoTerra of Littleton, Colorado $125,000 for the phase one Small Business Innovation Research project.
ExoTerra’s Solar Electric Propulsion Upper Stage is designed to deliver up to 150 kg of payload to the Moon.
ExoTerra’s Solar Electric Propulsion Upper Stage could enable LauncherOne customers to reach geostationary orbit, trans-lunar injection orbit, Earth-Moon Lagrange points, and low lunar orbit.
ExoTerra Resources, a Colorado startup, received a NASA Small Business Innovation Research contract on 2020-10-05 to develop a solar electric upper stage to boost small satellites launched on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne beyond low Earth orbit.
ExoTerra is developing its solar-electric propulsion technology with $2,000,000 in funding from NASA’s Tipping Point program.
NASA plans to launch ExoTerra’s high-impulse solar-electric propulsion system into orbit on a cubesat in December 2021.