Busek BHT-6000 Hall thruster
Busek's BHT-6000 is a 2-6 kW dual-mode Hall-effect thruster for high-power all-electric orbit raising, station keeping, and de-orbit. Busek documents xenon, krypton, and iodine operation, 320 mN at 5 kW in high-thrust mode, 288 mN at 6 kW in high-impulse mode, and 2,029/2,600 s specific impulse. Busek identifies a four-thruster BHT-6000 cluster with two NASA AEPS thrusters for NASA's Power and Propulsion Element and HALO Lunar Gateway mission, while this record does not invent a separate vehicle-family edge.
Identity
- Aliases
- BHT-6000BHT6000
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Identity Level
- model
- Kind
- electric-thruster
- Name
- Busek BHT-6000 Hall thruster
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- Busek's BHT-6000 is a 2-6 kW dual-mode Hall-effect thruster for high-power all-electric orbit raising, station keeping, and de-orbit. Busek documents xenon, krypton, and iodine operation, 320 mN at 5 kW in high-thrust mode, 288 mN at 6 kW in high-impulse mode, and 2,029/2,600 s specific impulse. Busek identifies a four-thruster BHT-6000 cluster with two NASA AEPS thrusters for NASA's Power and Propulsion Element and HALO Lunar Gateway mission, while this record does not invent a separate vehicle-family edge.
- Electric Specs
- Input Power Kw Max
- 6
- Input Power Kw Min
- 2
- Specific Impulse SMax
- 2,600
- Specific Impulse SMin
- 2,029
- Thrust NMax
- 0.32
- Thrust NMin
- 0.288
- Propellants
- xenonkryptoniodine
Links
- Official Url
- https://www.busek.com/bht6000
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 15, 2026 at 03:09:50 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 15, 2026 at 03:09:50 UTC
Other
- Sources
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-14
- Note
- Busek's current BHT-6000 product page identifies a 2-6 kW Hall thruster with greater than 64% nominal efficiency, xenon/krypton/iodine propellants, 320 mN at 5 kW and 2,029 s in high-thrust mode, and 288 mN at 6 kW and 2,600 s in high-impulse mode.
- Publisher
- Busek Co. Inc.
- Title
- BHT-6000
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-14
- Note
- Busek identifies a four-BHT-6000 cluster, paired with two NASA AEPS thrusters, for the Power and Propulsion Element and HALO Module's Lunar Gateway orbit-raising and station-keeping mission.
- Publisher
- Busek Co. Inc.
- Title
- BHT-6000
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-14
- Note
- NASA's technical report documents facility-effect testing performed during BHT-6000 development for flight on NASA's Power and Propulsion Element.
- Publisher
- NASA Technical Reports Server
- Title
- A Facility Effect Characterization Test of the BHT6000 Hall Thruster