Safran DSI - PPS®1350 Hall Effect Thruster
The PPS®1350 Hall Effet plasma thruster draws on Safran’s long experience with electric propulsion. It is designed for orbital transfer, station keeping and deorbiting satellites and other spacecraft. In particular, the PPS 1350 was the primary engine on ESA’s lunar probe, Smart-1, launched in 2003 by an Ariane 5 rocket. This mission was completed in September 2006.
VERY HIGH PERFORMANCE
The major advantage of the PPS®1350 is of course its very high specific impulse, which allows significant weight savings versus platforms using conventional chemical propulsion. It also offers an excellent thrust-to-electrical power ratio, which enables reducing operating time or the number of thrusters needed.
IN-ORBIT EXPERIENCE
The PPS®1350 amply demonstrated its capabilities during ESA’s Smart-1 probe’s mission from Earth orbit into orbit around the Moon: 5,000 hours cumulated operating time in space Four of these thrusters handle North/South station-keeping duties on the Alphasat satellite, launched in 2013. The PPS®1350 was selected by Space Systems Loral in 2016, and will be used on the company’s communications satellites for station-keeping, and for part of the orbit-topping operation.
PPS®1350 Features
Designed for Orbit-Topping and Station-Keeping |
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40% Weight Saving Versus Convention Propulsion |
Excellent Thrust-to-Electrical Power Ratio |
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Safran DSI
Safran Defense & Space, Inc. (Safran DSI) is a leading provider of cutting-edge solutions designed to address the evolving challenges of national defense and advanced space missions. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Safran DSI operates through specialized business units in Optronics, Space Solutions, Testing & Telemetry, Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). Safran DSI leverages its parent company's innovative technologies and global resources to deliver unparalleled solutions across air, land, sea, and space domains.
Testing & Telemetry BU provides complete end-to-end solutions from instrumentation, mission systems, on board recording and transmitting to base station for monitoring and controlling data. Our complete solutions are platform agnostic and are adaptable to the customer mission needs. Our instrumentation and telemetry turnkey solutions for mobile and stationary systems. This includes, but not limited to, data acquisition units (DAUs), on board recording, ground receiving, recording, and processing applications for fixed and rotary wing, manned and unmanned systems, eVTOL aircraft, as well as missile systems and space rockets/launchers. We offer comprehensive data management solutions for operational aircraft allowing for ISR, Search & Rescue, mission data loading & data transfer and pilot training & debriefing.
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Safran Defense & Space, Inc.
3005 Business Park Drive, Norcross, GA 30071, USA
Phone: 770-753-4017
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