PPS-1350
Two Snecma PPS 1350 at the Paris Air Show 2007
PPS-1350 is a Hall-effect thruster, a kind of ion propulsion system for spacecraft. It was used in the SMART-1 mission to the moon. It creates a stream of electrically charged xenon ions accelerated by an electric field and confined by a magnetic field.[1] The PPS-1350 is built by Snecma, a French aerospace firm, in cooperation with Fakel, who designed the SPT-100, on which the PPS 1350 is based.[2]
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References
- ↑ "PPS-1350 Plasma Thruster factsheet (PDF)" (PDF). Snecma.
- ↑ "PPS1350 web page". Safran (Snecma).
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