Aerojet XR-5
Exact Aerojet XR-5 Hall-effect electric thruster variant, formerly designated BPT-4000. This packet creates propulsion identity only; no actor attribution, spacecraft installation, family link, or lineage edge is inferred.
Identity
- Aliases
- XR-5Aerojet XR-5BPT-4000
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Identity Level
- variant
- Kind
- electric-thruster
- Name
- Aerojet XR-5
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- Exact Aerojet XR-5 Hall-effect electric thruster variant, formerly designated BPT-4000. This packet creates propulsion identity only; no actor attribution, spacecraft installation, family link, or lineage edge is inferred.
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- Creation Time
- August 6, 2026 at 20:45:59 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 6, 2026 at 20:45:59 UTC
Other
- Sources
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-06
- Note
- NASA reference identifies Aerojet 4.5 kW XR5 Hall-effect thruster, formerly BPT-4000, as a commercially delivered electric-propulsion system.
- Publisher
- NASA
- Title
- In-Space Propulsion State of the Art
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-06
- Note
- NASA briefing preserves the BPT-4000/XR-5 Hall-thruster identity and its 4.5 kW class without conflating it with BHT-200.
- Publisher
- NASA Langley Research Center
- Title
- Plasma, ion propulsion, and electrospray RCS briefing