Consortium for Hall Effect Orbital Propulsion System – Phase 2 covering LOW POWER needs

Project Information

CHEOPS LOW POWER

Grant agreement ID: 101004331

DOI

10.3030/101004331

Project closed

EC signature date 5 November 2020

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 31 January 2025

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Space

Total cost

€ 5 311 430,00

EU contribution

€ 4 000 000,00

Coordinated by

SAFRAN SPACECRAFT PROPULSION
France

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Scientific publication on CHEOPS Digital Twin activities

This deliverable corresponds to the scientific publication covering CHEOPS Digital Twin activities.

Methodology for Digital Twin creation

Public report reviewed by relevant SAB members that presents the methodology and the requirements for the baseline engineering model and initial dataset structure for the measured data necessary to the creation of the Digital Twin

Scientific publication on CHEOPS EPS Developement

This document will contain public information on the CHEOPS EPS development. It will contain a scientific publication on the subject.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

CHEOPS LOW POWER public website

The document will provide a description of the initial version of the public website

Publications

Conference proceedings (19)

Characterization of Electromagnetic Self-Emissions from the PPS®X00 Hall Thruster

Author(s): Alexandros Papamatthaiou
Published in: International Electric Propulsion Conference, Issue September 2025, 2025
Publisher: ERPS

Hall thruster discharge characterization with HYPHEN in CHEOPS-LP

Author(s): A. Domínguez-Vázquez
Published in: EPIC workshop, Issue May 2023, 2023
Publisher: EPIC

PPS®X00 Qualification Status

Author(s): Tanguy Krzymuski
Published in: International Electric Propulsion Conference, Issue September 2025, 2025
Publisher: ERPS

Safran’s EPS-X00 low power propulsion system: Latest Development and Qualification tests

Author(s): Antonio Piragino
Published in: International Electric Propulsion Conference, Issue September 2025, 2025
Publisher: ERPS

Development and Qualification Status of the Safran EPS-X00 Low Power Propulsion System

Author(s): Antonio Piragino
Published in: International Electric Propulsion Conference, Issue June 2024, 2024
Publisher: ERPS

Design optimization and development status of electric propulsion system for satellites

Author(s): Vanessa Vial
Published in: International Astronautical Congress, Issue October 2021, 2021
Publisher: IAF

PPU Developments at Thales Alenia Space in Belgium: PPU Mk4 and Low Power PPU

Author(s): Eric Bourguignon
Published in: International Electric Propulsion Conference, Issue September 2025, 2025
Publisher: ERPS

PPU Developments at Thales Alenia Space in Belgium

Author(s): Eric Bourguignon
Published in: International Electric Propulsion Conference, Issue June 2024, 2024
Publisher: ERPS

PPS®X00 Hall Thruster : A game changer to secure LEO/MEO constellations propulsion

Author(s): Claude-Martin Brito
Published in: International Astronautical Congress, Issue September 2022, 2022
Publisher: IAF

The CHEOPS projects - A success story

Author(s): Vanessa Vial
Published in: European Space Conference, Issue January 2024, 2024
Publisher: ESSP-SAS

Three-dimensional simulations of a Hall thruster magnetized plume in a vacuum chamber

Author(s): J. Zhou
Published in: SPINE workshop, Issue December 2023, 2023
Publisher: ESA

Phase-resolved laser-induced fluorescence for plasma dynamics investigations in Hall thruster

Author(s): Y. Dancheva
Published in: International Electric Propulsion Conference, Issue Sptember 2025, 2025
Publisher: ERPS

PPS®X00 Xenon-Krypton Propellant Flexibility

Author(s): Tanguy Krzymuski
Published in: International Electric Propulsion Conference, Issue June 2024, 2024
Publisher: ERPS

EP2PLUS: Thruster-plume-facility coupled simulations

Author(s): J. Zhou
Published in: EPIC workshop, Issue May 2023, 2023
Publisher: NA

PPS®X00 Hall Thruster: On the final path towards the qualification of a subkilowatt-class thruster

Author(s): Claude-Martin Brito
Published in: Space Propulsion Conference, Issue May 2024, 2024
Publisher: 3AF

Experimentally-informed 2D hybrid simulations of a low-power cylindrical Hall thruster

Author(s): Iñaki Fernandez-Tena
Published in: International Electric Propulsion Conference, Issue September 2025, 2025
Publisher: ERPS

PPS®X00 hall thruster development status

Author(s): Vanessa Vial
Published in: International Astronautical Congress, Issue October 2021, 2021
Publisher: IAF

Towards Using Functional Decomposition and Ensembles of Surrogate Models for Technology Selection in System Level Design

Author(s): Mohammad Arjomandi Rad, Massimo Panarotto, Johan Malmqvist, Julian Martinsson Bonde, Kristina Warmefjord, Ola Isaksson
Published in: Proceedings of NordDesign 2024, Issue 2024, 2024, Page(s) 421-430, ISBN 978-1-912254-21-7
Publisher: The Design Society
DOI: 10.35199/norddesign2024.45

Analysis of the electron downstream boundary conditions in a 2D hybrid code for Hall thrusters

Author(s): A. Dominguez-Vazquez
Published in: International Electric Propulsion Conference, Issue June 2022, 2022
Publisher: ERPS

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Ion dynamic characterization using phase-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy in a Hall effect thruster

Author(s): Y. Dancheva, P. Coniglio, M. Da Valle, F. Scortecci
Published in: Review of Scientific Instruments, Issue 94, 2023, ISSN 0034-6748
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0146669

Modeling of a Hall thruster plume: influence of plume boundary conditions and size, and cathode location

Author(s): A Domínguez-Vázquez, J Zhou, A Sevillano-González, E Ahedo
Published in: Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Issue 34, 2025, Page(s) 085004, ISSN 0963-0252
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/adf576

Cost-efficient digital twins for design space exploration: A modular platform approach

Author(s): Massimo Panarotto, Ola Isaksson, Vanessa Vial
Published in: Computers in Industry, Issue 145, 2025, Page(s) 103813, ISSN 0166-3615
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2022.103813

Analysis and control of Hall effect thruster using optical emission spectroscopy and artificial neural network

Author(s): Tarek Ben Slimane, Alexandre Leduc, Loïc Schiesko, Anne Bourdon, Pascal Chabert
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 136, 2025, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0214760

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Simulation and performances of a Hall effect thruster

Author(s): Alejandro Sevillano González
Published in: MSc in Aeronautical Engineering, Issue 2022, 2022
Publisher: UC3M

Performance studies of alternative propellants for a low power Hall effect thruster

Author(s): Alejandro Sevillano González
Published in: MSc in Space Engineering, Issue 2023, 2023
Publisher: UC3M