Bellatrix Aerospace, a Bengaluru-headquartered Location The transportation firm that has tested the country’s first privately built Hall thruster, a highly efficient electric propulsion system for satellites, has tied up with industry major L&T with the goal of working together “in building products for the world”. Is.
The agreement was signed late Thursday in Dubai and the firm said it was confident that “the combination of L&T’s proven capabilities in fulfilling the Indian space program with its strengths in advanced propulsion and allied technologies will enable cost-effective and sustainable access”. can help to do space.”
Informed sources said this will enable Bellatrix to scale up – as L&T has decades of manufacturing experience – and accelerate making its products available to market.
Earlier this year, the firm signed a memorandum of understanding with SatSure AG, a WEF global innovator, to provide decision intelligence by leveraging advances in satellites, machine learning and big data analytics. SatSure operates from St. Gallen (Switzerland), Bengaluru, liverpool (UK) and Sydney (Australia).
The MoU is to help Bellatrix place its payloads in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) – a novel on-orbit high-resolution data processing for in-orbit high-resolution data processing using satellite SatSure’s proprietary deep learning algorithms and ultra low-bandwidth data. -The board will host the processor. Transmission on a microsatellite platform that includes Bellatrix Aerospace’s unique hybrid propulsion system.
SatSure and Bellatrix plan to launch the first satellite of the proposed constellation by the end of December 2022. The firm has also tied up with Skyroute Aerospace and Dhruv Space on its ambitious Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) mission.
Novel propellant and space taxi
As previously reported by TOI, Bellatrix tested the country’s first privately built Hall thruster in May this year, while it had previously developed the world’s first commercial microwave. plasma thrusterWhich used water as fuel and for which the company got an order from ISRO.
A Hall thruster, initially developed in Russia, is a device that employs electric and magnetic fields to ionize propellant gases such as xenon to generate emphasis. Today, it is the most reliable and time-tested electric propulsion system in the global market.
Bellatrix CEO and CTO Rohan M Ganapathy had told TOI that the firm has been working on this technology in stealth mode for four years.
“Heaterless cathode technology is the key innovation that sets us apart from the competition by increasing system life and redundancy and life. We are also the first in the country to have it designed to operate efficiently at very low current levels,” Ganpati had said, this is also an important technology for the space taxi that they are developing.
ISRO Chairman K Sivan, who inaugurated Bellatrix’s privately funded propulsion laboratory, which has internal facilities for developing and testing electric and green chemical propulsion technologies, also witnessed the firing of the Hall thruster.
The agreement was signed late Thursday in Dubai and the firm said it was confident that “the combination of L&T’s proven capabilities in fulfilling the Indian space program with its strengths in advanced propulsion and allied technologies will enable cost-effective and sustainable access”. can help to do space.”
Informed sources said this will enable Bellatrix to scale up – as L&T has decades of manufacturing experience – and accelerate making its products available to market.
Earlier this year, the firm signed a memorandum of understanding with SatSure AG, a WEF global innovator, to provide decision intelligence by leveraging advances in satellites, machine learning and big data analytics. SatSure operates from St. Gallen (Switzerland), Bengaluru, liverpool (UK) and Sydney (Australia).
The MoU is to help Bellatrix place its payloads in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) – a novel on-orbit high-resolution data processing for in-orbit high-resolution data processing using satellite SatSure’s proprietary deep learning algorithms and ultra low-bandwidth data. -The board will host the processor. Transmission on a microsatellite platform that includes Bellatrix Aerospace’s unique hybrid propulsion system.
SatSure and Bellatrix plan to launch the first satellite of the proposed constellation by the end of December 2022. The firm has also tied up with Skyroute Aerospace and Dhruv Space on its ambitious Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) mission.
Novel propellant and space taxi
As previously reported by TOI, Bellatrix tested the country’s first privately built Hall thruster in May this year, while it had previously developed the world’s first commercial microwave. plasma thrusterWhich used water as fuel and for which the company got an order from ISRO.
A Hall thruster, initially developed in Russia, is a device that employs electric and magnetic fields to ionize propellant gases such as xenon to generate emphasis. Today, it is the most reliable and time-tested electric propulsion system in the global market.
Bellatrix CEO and CTO Rohan M Ganapathy had told TOI that the firm has been working on this technology in stealth mode for four years.
“Heaterless cathode technology is the key innovation that sets us apart from the competition by increasing system life and redundancy and life. We are also the first in the country to have it designed to operate efficiently at very low current levels,” Ganpati had said, this is also an important technology for the space taxi that they are developing.
ISRO Chairman K Sivan, who inaugurated Bellatrix’s privately funded propulsion laboratory, which has internal facilities for developing and testing electric and green chemical propulsion technologies, also witnessed the firing of the Hall thruster.
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