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Hisea-1 carries an iodine electric propulsion system developed by French startup ThrustMe.
BEIHANGKONGSHI-1 carries a ThrustMe NPT30-I2 electric propulsion system that uses iodine propellant.
ThrustMe tested iodine storage, delivery, and sublimation technologies on Spacety’s Xiaoxiang 1(08) satellite as part of an in-orbit demonstration of the I2T5 iodine cold gas thruster in the prior year.
ThrustMe is preparing to conduct an in-orbit demonstration of an iodine electric propulsion system on a 12-unit Spacety cubesat launched 2020-11-06 at 10:19 Eastern time on a Chinese Long March 6 rocket.
ThrustMe previously tested critical technologies for iodine storage, delivery, and sublimation on Spacety’s Xiaoxiang 1-08 satellite as part of an in-orbit demonstration of its I2T5 iodine cold gas thruster.
Spacety has ordered several of ThrustMe’s NPT30-I2 propulsion systems for its upcoming Synthetic Aperture Radar constellation that Spacety intends to start deploying 2020.
In 2019 ThrustMe tested a cold gas thruster based on the iodine propellant storage subsystem of its electric thruster on a Spacety satellite.
ThrustMe will demonstrate its NPT30 miniaturized electric propulsion system on the GomSpace GOMX-5 ESA mission scheduled to launch in 2021.
ThrustMe developed a cold gas thruster and is developing an electric propulsion system for small satellites.
ThrustMe’s I2T5 cold gas thruster performed its first propulsive operations on 2019-11-18, firing for a few tens of minutes.
ThrustMe developed the new cold gas thruster within six weeks and signed a contract with Spacety three months later.
ThrustMe is developing small electric propulsion systems powered by iodine and xenon.
Spacety is flying an in-orbit demonstration with a 10-kilogram cubesat testing a multispectral imager, laser communications, and ThrustMe’s iodine propulsion system.
The satellite launched on the Long March 4B includes an iodine-based propulsion system developed and built by ThrustMe.
ThrustMe is a French company founded in 2017 that developed a non-pressurized cold gas thruster fueled by solid iodine.
ThrustMe had raised €4.6 million to date.
ThrustMe plans to ship five thrusters for two customers next year and scale up by 2020 to ship 50 to 70 thrusters per year.
ThrustMe moved into a newly built 300-square-meter headquarters in Paris in April.
ThrustMe received €2.4 million from the European Commission to commercialize an electric propulsion system for small satellites.
ThrustMe is developing a 300-watt thruster intended for satellites weighing between 200 and 300 kg.