{"id":90581,"date":"2019-05-10T14:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/apollo-fusion-obtains-hall-thruster-technology-from-jpl"},"modified":"2019-05-10T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:22:47","slug":"apollo-fusion-obtains-hall-thruster-technology-from-jpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/apollo-fusion-obtains-hall-thruster-technology-from-jpl","title":{"rendered":"Apollo Fusion Obtains Hall Thruster Technology from JPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apollo-fusion-obtains-hall-thruster-technology-from-jpl2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Satellite electric propulsion startup Apollo Fusion <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/apollo-fusion-obtains-hall-thruster-technology-from-jpl\/\">is expanding its product line<\/a> through an agreement with NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, giving it access to advanced Hall thruster technology.<\/p>\n<p>The Silicon Valley-based company said May 7 that it signed a deal that gives it an exclusive worldwide commercial license for JPL\u2019s Magnetically Shielded Miniature, or MaSMi, Hall thruster technology, as well as a contract to provide JPL with three thrusters that use that technology.<\/p>\n<p>Apollo Fusion plans to use the MaSMi technology in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/21199-space-electric-propulsion-engines.html\">electric thruster<\/a> called the Apollo Xenon Engine (AXE), which will provide higher performance than the existing electric thrusters that the company has been developing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/apollo-fusion-hall-thruster-technology-jpl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Satellite electric propulsion startup Apollo Fusion is expanding its product line through an agreement with NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, giving it access to advanced Hall thruster technology. The Silicon Valley-based company said May 7 that it signed a deal that gives it an exclusive worldwide commercial license for JPL\u2019s Magnetically Shielded Miniature, or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}