RIT 10 EVO ion thruster
ArianeGroup's RIT 10 EVO is a contemporary-grid variant of the flight-heritage RIT-10 radio-frequency ion thruster. NASA's 2025 and 2026 state-of-the-art tables identify it as an ArianeGroup xenon product with below 435 W power and below 15 mN thrust; the current evidence does not establish service entry or a current lifecycle state.
Identity
- Aliases
- RIT 10 EVORIT-10 EVO
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Identity Level
- variant
- Kind
- electric-thruster
- Name
- RIT 10 EVO ion thruster
- Status
- unknown
Details
- Description
- ArianeGroup's RIT 10 EVO is a contemporary-grid variant of the flight-heritage RIT-10 radio-frequency ion thruster. NASA's 2025 and 2026 state-of-the-art tables identify it as an ArianeGroup xenon product with below 435 W power and below 15 mN thrust; the current evidence does not establish service entry or a current lifecycle state.
- Developers
- Electric Specs
- Input Power Max
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- Thrust Max
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- Lineage
- Note
- NASA explicitly describes RIT 10 EVO as identical to flight-heritage RIT-10 except for a contemporary grid design; the hardware boundary is preserved as a variant rather than a duplicate family row.
- Related Propulsion System
- Relationship
- direct-derivative-of
- Sources
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-14
- Note
- NASA's 2026 state-of-the-art table names RIT 10 EVO and explicitly distinguishes its contemporary grid design from flight-heritage RIT-10.
- Publisher
- NASA Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute
- Title
- State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology: In-Space Propulsion
- Manufacturers
- Propellants
- xenon
Links
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 15, 2026 at 02:47:16 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 21, 2026 at 11:12:18 UTC
Other
- Sources
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-21
- Note
- NASA's 2026 state-of-the-art table lists ArianeGroup RIT 10 EVO as a xenon RF-ion variant with below 435 W power, below 15 mN thrust, and a contemporary grid design relative to flight-heritage RIT-10.
- Publisher
- NASA Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute
- Title
- State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology: In-Space Propulsion
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-21
- Note
- NASA's 2025 state-of-the-art report independently lists RIT 10 EVO as an existing ArianeGroup RF-ion product and repeats the contemporary-grid distinction.
- Publisher
- NASA Technical Reports Server
- Title
- State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology: In-Space Propulsion