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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 raised $1,500,000 in 2018 to develop solar-electric propulsion for small satellites.
NASA plans to launch ExoTerra’s high-impulse solar-electric propulsion system into orbit on a cubesat in December 2021.
ExoTerra plans to move on 2020-09-01 into a 1,022-square-meter facility in Littleton, Colorado.
ExoTerra will flight test a 300-watt solar electric propulsion system that uses iodine in place of xenon.