Preliminary Design Specifications
- Science payload mass: 1,500 kg
- Electric turboalternators: multiple 104 kW (440 V AC)
- Deployable radiator: 422 m² surface area
- Electric Herakles ion thrusters: multiple 30 kW high efficiency, specific impulse 7,000 s (69 kN·s/kg)
- Hall thrusters: high power, higher thrust
- Telecommunications link: 10 Mbit/s (4×250 watt TWTA)
- Deployed size: 58.4 m long × 15.7 m wide
- Stowed size: 19.7 m long × 4.57 m wide
- Mission design life: 20 years
- Launch date: 2017
- Launch Vehicle: Delta 4H
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