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Aliena deployed its Hall thruster engines on the smallest satellite on-orbit to host such a propulsion system.
Aliena achieved a milestone reduction in Hall thruster power consumption through a novel ignition and neutralization scheme developed internally.
Aliena’s microsatellite-class engines, named MUSIC, will be first deployed on a 12U smallsat platform in 2023 on Orbital Astronautic’s ORB-12 Strider mission.