Honghu 50kg-Class Satellite Platform
Spacety
50kg-class space science experiment satellite platform carrying integrated electronic and electric-propulsion payloads for in-orbit thruster verification.
Technical specifications
- Platform mass class
- 50 kg-class
- Payloads
- Integrated electronic payload; xenon-gas Hall effect thruster; krypton-gas Hall effect thruster; 'Xingcheng II' argon ion thruster
- Xingcheng II specific impulse
- up to 1,500 s
- In-orbit test scope
- ~3,000 hours of ignition experiments; 10,000 power-on/off lifetime cycles
- Launch vehicle
- Zhuque-2 Telemetry-3, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
About
Satellite Honghu is a 50kg-class space science experiment satellite independently designed and produced by Spacety, launched 9 December 2023 on a Zhuque-2 Telemetry-3 carrier rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center alongside Satellite TY-33. Honghu carries an integrated electronic payload, a xenon-gas Hall effect thruster payload and a krypton-gas Hall effect thruster payload developed by Shanghai Lanjian Hongqin Science and Technology, tasked with orbit-control function/performance verification and thousands of hours of ignition and power-cycling life tests — the first Chinese attempt at cumulative 100 km-level orbit control experiments using xenon and krypton permanent-magnet electric thrusters. It also carries the ‘Xingcheng II’ argon-gas ion thruster developed by Xingcheng Huiyu (Beijing) Technology, which uses low-cost argon propellant and ionization/acceleration separation to reach up to 1,500 seconds of specific impulse with a wide thrust-adjustment range, aimed at orbit injection, constellation attitude adjustment, and satellite decommissioning.
Documentation
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