NASA Funded: Enhances thrust/performance capability for Resource Prospector and future missions. NASA Unfunded: Enables larger science payloads because thruster is lighter, smaller and lower cost than other engines in its class. OGA: Provides a lighter, smaller, less expensive main engine option for any government project that operates in the space environment. Industry: Astrobotic Technology, a Lunar CATALYST company has baselined this engine for their Peregrine lander. ISE-100 will provide a very attractive thruster option to industry because of its reduced size, mass and cost. Nation: Promotes NASA's mission to explore new destinations, with high performance that is attractive economically.
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