Building blOcks for iOdine thruSTer

Informations projet

BOOST

N° de convention de subvention: 101135216

DOI

10.3030/101135216

Date de signature de la CE 20 Novembre 2023

Date de début 1 Janvier 2024

Date de fin 31 Decembre 2027

Financé au titre de

• Digital, Industry and Space

Coût total

Aucune donnée

Contribution de l’UE

€ 2 174 735,28

Coordonné par

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
Italy

CORDIS fournit des liens vers les livrables publics et les publications des projets HORIZON.

Les liens vers les livrables et les publications des projets du 7e PC, ainsi que les liens vers certains types de résultats spécifiques tels que les jeux de données et les logiciels, sont récupérés dynamiquement sur OpenAIRE .

Livrables

Documents, reports (9)

SFR

Definition of the requirements for each component to be developed and for the integrated assemblies (i.e., RF cathode + iodine fluidic line + iodine tank).

DCP

Dissemination and Communication plan.

Data Management Plan

The DMP will provide the identification elements and the descriptions of the data sets and will include details regarding how the research data will be handled during the project and how they will be preserved after it is completed. It will specify which methodologies and standards will be used in the data creation and management and how and when the data will be shared and made open for re-use.

OES

Report on OES setup

Plasma plume neutralization document

Definition of the electrical/mechanical interface between RF cathode, the hypothetical electric propulsion system and platform to allow for neutralization of the plume and assess impact of surfaces contamination.

Mission Analysis Report

A report with mission requirements, mission analysis results, and logistic analysis.

Project Handbook

The Project Handbook brings together a wide range of general operational information including contact details, roles and responsibilities of the partners according to the governance structure, operational and reporting processes, templates, procedures for the preparation of deliverables.

ICD

Interface control document on facility-component-systems as well as facility improvements.

LIF

Report on LIF bench design and validation

Publications

Conference proceedings (13)

Design of an Iodine Compatible RF Cathode via Global Modelling and Electromagnetic Simulations

Auteurs: R. Tan, L. Tonon, F. Cescon, D. Pavarin, M. Magarotto
Publié dans: SPC 2026
Éditeur: SPC 2026
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.22894825

Advancing Iodine Thruster Technology: Insights and Objectives of Project BOOST

Auteurs: PONTI, FABRIZIO
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Electric Propulsion Society
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.13763824

Progress in Iodine Thruster Technology: Key Developments in Project BOOST

Auteurs: Ponti, Fabrizio
Publié dans: IEPC 2025, 2025
Éditeur: Electric Propulsion Society
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18803805

BOOST: Advance Iodine Electric Propulsion for SmallSats and On-Orbit Servicing

Auteurs: Fabrizio Ponti, Nabil Souhair, Raoul Andriulli, Francesco Felicioni, Antonella Caldarelli, Giacomo Silvagni, Lorenzo Suozzi, Nouhayla Oamer, Mirko Magarotto, Alessandro Martucci, Francesca Ferri, Federico Cescon, Simone Di Fede, Georg Herdrich, Jonathan Skalden, Elizabeth Gutierrez, Stephane Mazouffre, Alfredo Marianacci, Daniele Pavarin, Nicolas Bellomo, Elena Toson, Paola De Carlo, Fabiana Milza, Fabio Trezzolani, Stefano Gragnaniello, Federico Parigi, Fabio Nichele, Margherita Cardi, Alessio Laudani, Andreas Wiegand, Mihai Pripasu
Publié dans: IAF Space Propulsion Symposium, 2025
Éditeur: International Astronautical Federation (IAF)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14094342

Advancing Iodine-Based Electric Propulsion: Early Results from Project BOOST

Auteurs: Suozzi, Lorenzo, Silvagni, Giacomo, Andriulli, Raoul, Felicioni, Francesco, Caldarelli, Antonella, Souhair, Nabil, Ponti, Fabrizio
Publié dans: CEAS 2025, 2025
Éditeur: CEAS
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18804483

Development of a Rechargeable Iodine Tank for Electric Propulsion: Insight from the BOOST Project

Auteurs: Ponti, Fabrizio, Suozzi, Lorenzo, Caldarelli, Antonella, Andriulli, Raoul, Silvagni, Giacomo, Felicioni, Francesco
Publié dans: IEPC 2025, 2025
Éditeur: Electric Propulsion Society
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18804282

Cluster of Magnetic Nozzles: A Fully Kinetic 3D PIC Simulation Study

Auteurs: F. Cescon, S. Di Fede, M. Manente, M. Magarotto
Publié dans: IEPC 2024
Éditeur: IEPC 2024
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.22894378

Three-dimensional fully kinetic plume modeling of a Gridded Ion Thruster

Auteurs: F. Cescon, S. Di Fede, M. Manente, D. Pavarin, M. Magarotto, L. Tonon, R. Tan
Publié dans: SPC 2026
Éditeur: SPC 2026
DOI: 10.60711/SPC2026.20260603.246932313456091648

Building Blocks for Iodine Thrusters: Perspective and Targets of the Project BOOST

Auteurs: PONTI, FABRIZIO
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: 3AF
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.13923556

Reconfigurable RF Cathode operated with noble gases and iodine

Auteurs: L. Tonon, R. Tan, F. Cescon, M. Magarotto, G. Pitacco, D. Pavarin
Publié dans: SPC 2026
Éditeur: SPC 2026
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.22894886

Metasurfaces to Advance Electric Space Propulsion

Auteurs: M. Magarotto, L. Tonon, F. Cescon, R. Tan, M. Sartore, M. R. Inchingolo, J. Navarro-Cavallé, D. Pavarin, G. E. Bonacchini, L. Schenato, A.-D. Capobianco
Publié dans: SPC 2026
Éditeur: SPC 2026
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.22894963

Iodine Test Facility at the Institute of Space Systems

Auteurs: Skalden, Jonathan, Ianosel, Christian, Herdrich, Georg, Ponti, Fabrizio
Publié dans: IEPC 2025, 2025
Éditeur: Electric Propulsion Society
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18804363

Development of an Iodine-fed RF Cathode

Auteurs: M. Magarotto, F. Cescon, R. Tan, L. Tonon, M. Manente, D. Pavarin, S. Di Fede
Publié dans: IEPC 2025
Éditeur: IEPC 2025
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.22894561

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Coupling of Fluid and Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Ambipolar Plasma Thrusters

Auteurs: Willem van Lynden; Raoul Andriulli; Nabil Souhair; Fabrizio Ponti; Mirko Magarotto
Publié dans: Aerospace, Numéro 11, 2024, ISSN 2226-4310
Éditeur: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/AEROSPACE11110880

Advancing iodine thruster technology: insights and objectives of project BOOST

Auteurs: Fabrizio Ponti, Nabil Souhair, Raoul Andriulli, Francesco Felicioni, Lorenzo Suozzi, Antonella Caldarelli, Giacomo Silvagni, Mirko Magarotto, Federico x Cescon, Lorenzo Tonon, Ren Wei Tan, Simone Di Fede, Georg Herdrich, Jonathan Skalden, Elizabeth Gutierrez, Stephane Mazouffre, Alfredo Marianacci, Daniele Pavarin, Paola De Carlo, Nicolas Bellomo, Elena Toson, Riccardo Mantellato, Fabiana Milza, Federico Parigi, Fabio Nichele, Margherita Cardi, Alessio Laudani, Aurelio Kaluthantrige, Andreas Wiegand, Mihai Pripasu
Publié dans: Journal of Electric Propulsion, Numéro 4, 2025, ISSN 2731-4596
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S44205-025-00132-2

Plume backflow in gridded ion thrusters

Auteurs: Federico Cescon, Simone Di Fede, Marco Manente, Daniele Pavarin, Mirko Magarotto
Publié dans: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Numéro 59, 2026, ISSN 0022-3727
Éditeur: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/AE9F6A

Metalens for Electric Space Propulsion

Auteurs: Mirko Magarotto, Luca Schenato, Marco Santagiustina, Andrea Galtarossa, Antonio-Daniele Capobianco
Publié dans: IEEE Access, Numéro 13, 2025, ISSN 2169-3536
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3626985