ExoTerra (Imaging)

ExoTerra specializes in developing and optimizing solar electric propulsion systems. In addition to our own Courier system and Halo thruster, we have worked on SEP systems such as the Asteroid Redirect Mission, Mars Aerosol Tracker, and Agile Inspector.

• NASA contract.
• ExoTerra to Become First Privately Owned Space Company to Fly to an Asteroid, 2017-03-29.
• Received NASA SBIR Phase II project.
• Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance: Eight ISR Small Businesses Join Catalyst Space Accelerator.
• ExoTerra also is preparing for a 2022 flight test of its own 12-unit cubesat equipped with a compact, high-impulse solar electric propulsion module.
• ExoTerra Resources has demonstrated its first Halo Hall-effect thrusters in orbit on DARPA Blackjack satellites. The first ExoTerra Halo thruster lit on its first attempt in June. Now, three Blackjack Aces satellites manufactured by RTX subsidiary Blue Canyon Technologies have fired ExoTerra Halo thrusters.
• Extended Life Qualification of the Magnetically Shielded Miniature (MaSMi) Hall Thruster, SmallSat 2023.
• ExoTerra raises $8 million to boost propulsion system production, 2024-06-20.
  •  “We now have a backlog of over 200 modules to produce.”
  • With the Lago investment, ExoTerra will “add the assembly, test equipment and staff we need to increase output from eight modules per month to 20 per month, and successfully deliver on customer commitments,” VanWoerkom said.