[Via Satellite 03-02-2016] NASA<\/b> has selected Busek<\/b>\u2019s BET-100 miniature CubeSat propulsion system for a $1.6 million award. The agency\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is sponsoring the contract through its Small Spacecraft Technology Program. The contract carries a total value up to $2.3 million.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s strong industry interest for this system,\u201d said Nathaniel Demmons, director of electrospray propulsion at Busek. \u201cThe BET-100 micronewton-class thruster has a modular design and low power needs, making it excellent choice for a range of small spacecraft missions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Busek micro-propulsion system is designed to enable higher levels of in-space maneuverability for CubeSats and small satellites. Busek developed the world\u2019s first flight qualified electrospray thrusters, which successfully performed aboard the European Space Agency<\/b>\u2019s (ESA) LISA Pathfinder mission. The firm designed, manufactured and demonstrated more than 3,500 hours of operation prior to delivering the eight flight units to NASA\u2019s JPL in 2008 for the mission, which launched in December 2015.
\nThe recent NASA contract makes the BET-100 a candidate for a Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator (PTD) space mission. NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley will lead the project in collaboration with the agency\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve successfully demonstrated the core technology in space, and now Busek is packing greater capabilities into ever smaller, highly efficient form-factors,\u201d said Vlad Hruby, president of Busek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Via Satellite 03-02-2016] NASA has selected Busek\u2019s BET-100 miniature CubeSat propulsion system for a $1.6 million award. The agency\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is sponsoring the contract through its Small Spacecraft Technology Program. The contract carries a total value up to $2.3 million. \u201cThere\u2019s strong industry interest for this system,\u201d said Nathaniel Demmons, director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}