ExoTerra Resource

Propulsion Products
ExoTerra offers components and subsystems for high-capability CubeSat propulsion, ranging from our small
pulsed-plasma thrusters (PPTs) to our Halo Hall-effect thruster.

Halo Micro Hall Effect Thruster

Halo is a miniaturized centerline-cathode Hall-effect thruster designed to bring high-performance, high-delta-

V, launch-vehicle-compliant propulsion to CubeSats. Using magnetic fields to focus and accelerate a plasma
to generate thrust, Halo operates on a flexible range of inert gases and storable propellants – without
combustion.

The current version of Halo has demonstrated operation between 75 and 400 W with thrust ranging from 4 to
34 mN and Isp from 700 s to 1500 s. Designed for CubeSats, Halo fits within a 7.5 cm diameter by 4 cm long
volume (excluding mission unique gas fittings), and weighs just 0.6kg.

Halo is designed to work with xenon, krypton, or iodine propellants. Our current testing has been performed
with xenon with a demonstration of iodine performance slated for late 2017. The thruster will perform a
demonstration flight using iodine in 2019 as part of the NASA Tipping Point program.

Pulsed Plasma Thrusters

Coming Soon

Cathodes

Coming Soon

Please contact ExoTerra for

details on these items and how
we might tailor them to your
ExoTerra’s Halo Hall-Effect Thruster fits high performance propulsion
into a CubeSat-sized package specific mission needs.

ExoTerra has successfully completed functional testing of the Halo

Hall-Effect Thruster
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