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Muon Space Climate Satellites Will Be Equipped with Exotrail Electric Engines

By James Careless
SpaceRef
September 5, 2023
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Muon Space Climate Satellites Will Be Equipped with Exotrail Electric Engines
Exotrail Spaceware engine.
Image credit: Exotrail.

Muon Space, a climate-monitoring satellite company, has selected Exotrail’s spaceware electric propulsion systems to propel five of its ESPA (EELV Secondary Payload Adapter) class LEO spacecraft. They will be used for on-station maneuvers such as orbit raising and anomaly phasing, orbit maintenance, collision avoidance, and end-of-life deorbiting at the end of operational life.

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James Careless

James Careless is an award-winning satellite communications writer. He has covered the industry since the 1990s.