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 raised $1,500,000 in 2018 to develop solar-electric propulsion for small satellites.
NASA awarded ExoTerra a $749,000 SBIR contract in 2019 for a miniature solar electric propulsion system using xenon fuel for cubesats.
ExoTerra plans to move on 2020-09-01 into a 1,022-square-meter facility in Littleton, Colorado.
ExoTerra won a commercial contract from an undisclosed customer for a 2021 flight demonstration.
NASA awarded ExoTerra $125,000 to design and demonstrate a spacecraft power system that relies on miniature Brayton Cycle components.
ExoTerra Resource received $2,000,000 to demonstrate a high-impulse solar-electric propulsion system on a cubesat.
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate awarded ExoTerra a contract through its Tipping Point initiative in 2017.
ExoTerra’s Nano Icy Moons Propellant Harvester system reduces dry mass by 90 percent compared to current systems.
ExoTerra plans to complete environmental testing of its solar electric propulsion systems by May.
ExoTerra will flight test a 300-watt solar electric propulsion system that uses iodine in place of xenon.
ExoTerra Resources LLC is a Littleton, Colorado startup that obtained a $1,500,000 investment to further development of solar electric propulsion systems for microsatellites.