PPS-1350
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Two Snecma PPS 1350 at the Paris Air Show 2007
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| Manufacturer | Snecma |
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| Hall-effect thruster | |
| Performance | |
| Thrust | 90 |
| Specific impulse | 1660 |
| Total impulse | 3.4×106 |
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 and two geostationary satellites: Inmarsat-4A F4 and Hispasat AG1.
It creates a stream of electrically charged xenon ions accelerated by an electric field and confined by a magnetic field. 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.
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