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MINOTOR SIGNED

MagnetIc NOzzle thruster with elecTron cyclOtron Resonance

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EC-Contrib. €

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MINOTOR project word cloud

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Project "MINOTOR" data sheet

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Coordinator	OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES Organization address address: CHEMIN DE LA HUNIERE city: PALAISEAU postcode: 91120 website: www.onera.fr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	France [FR]
Project website	http://www.minotor-project.eu
Total cost	1˙485˙809 €
EC max contribution	1˙485˙809 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.2.1.6.1. (Enabling European competitiveness, non-dependence and innovation of the European space sector) 2. H2020-EU.2.1.6.2. (Enabling advances in space technology) 3. H2020-EU.2.1.6.1.1. (Safeguard and further develop a competitive, sustainable and entrepreneurial space industry and research community and strengthen European non-dependence in space systems)
Code Call	H2020-COMPET-2016
Funding Scheme	RIA
Starting year	2017
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2017-01-01 to 2020-04-30

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES Organization address address: CHEMIN DE LA HUNIERE city: PALAISEAU postcode: 91120 website: www.onera.fr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (PALAISEAU)	coordinator	599˙065.00
2	UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID Organization address address: CALLE MADRID 126 city: GETAFE (MADRID) postcode: 28903 website: http://www.uc3m.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (GETAFE (MADRID))	participant	310˙481.00
3	JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITAET GIESSEN JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITAET GIESSEN Organization address address: LUDWIGSTRASSE 23 city: GIESSEN postcode: 35390 website: www.uni-giessen.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (GIESSEN)	participant	153˙750.00
4	THALES MICROELECTRONICS SAS THALES MICROELECTRONICS SAS Organization address address: ZA PIQUET CAP DE BRETAGNE city: ETRELLES postcode: 35370 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (ETRELLES)	participant	150˙271.00
5	THALES ALENIA SPACE BELGIUM S.A. THALES ALENIA SPACE BELGIUM S.A. Organization address address: RUE CHAPELLE BEAUSSART 101 city: MONT SUR MARCHIENNE postcode: 6032 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	BE (MONT SUR MARCHIENNE)	participant	115˙058.00
6	L - UP SAS L - UP SAS Organization address address: Avenue de Friedland 32 city: PARIS postcode: 75008 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (PARIS)	participant	86˙907.00
7	SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES Organization address address: BVD DU GENERAL MARTIAL VALIN 2 city: PARIS postcode: 75015 website: www.safran-aircraft-engines.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (PARIS)	participant	70˙276.00

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Project objective

MINOTOR’s strategic objective is to demonstrate the feasibility of the ECRA technology as a disruptive game-changer in electric propulsion, and to prepare roadmaps paving the way for the 2nd EPIC call, in close alignment with the overall SRC-EPIC strategy. Based on electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) as the sole ionization and acceleration process, ECRA is a cathodeless thruster with magnetic nozzle, allowing thrust vectoring. It has a considerable advantage in terms of global system cost, where a reduction of at least a factor of 2 is expected, and reliability compared to mature technologies. It is also scalable and can potentially be considered for all electric propulsion applications, from microsatellites to space tugs. Although the first results obtained with ECRA have been encouraging, the complexity of the physics at play has been an obstacle for the understanding and development of the technology. Thus an in-depth numerical and experimental investigation plan has been devised for the project, in order to bring the technology from TRL3 to TRL5. The strong consortium is composed of academic experts to perform the research activities on ECRA, including alternative propellants, along with experienced industrial partners to quantify its disruptive advantages on the propulsion subsystem and its market positioning. ECRA’s advantages as an electric thruster technology can be a disruptive force in a mostly cost-driven satellite market. It would increase European competitiveness, help develop low-cost satellite missions such as constellations, provide end-of-life propulsion, and pave the way for future emerging electric propulsion technologies. The 36 months MINOTOR project requests a total EC grant of 1 485 809 M€ for an experienced consortium of 7 partners from 4 countries: ONERA (FR, Coordinator), industries Thales Alenia Space (BE), Thales Microelectronics (FR), SNECMA (FR), Universities Carlos III (ES) and Giessen (GE), and SME L-up (FR).

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2017	T. Vialis, J. Jarrige, D. Packan Geometry optimization and effect of gas propellant in an electron cyclotron resonance plasma thruster published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	The 35th International Electric Propulsion Conference IEPC-2017-378, 08/10/2017	2020-01-20
2017	J. Jarrige; S. Correyero, PQ. Elias, D. Packan Investigation on the ion velocity distribution in the magnetic nozzle of an ECR plasma thruster using LIF measurements published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	The 35th International Electric Propulsion Conference IEPC-2017-382, 08/10/2017	2020-01-20
2017	S. Correyero, J. Jarrige, D. Packan, E. Ahedo Measurement of anisotropic plasma properties along the magnetic nozzle expansion of an Electron Cyclotron Resonance Thruster published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	The 35th International Electric Propulsion Conference IEPC-2017-437, 08/10/2017	2020-01-20
2017	PQ. Elias Advances in the kinetic simulation of microwave absorption in an ECR thruster published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	The 35th International Electric Propulsion Conference IEPC-2017-361, 08/10/2017	2020-01-20
2017	Mario Merino, Alvaro Sanchez-Villar, Eduardo Ahedo, Paul Bonoli, Jungpyo Lee, Abhay Ram and John Wright Wave Propagation and Absorption in ECR Plasma thrusters published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	The 35th International Electric Propulsion Conference IEPC-2017-105, 09/10/2017	2020-01-20
2017	M.Wijnen, S.Correyero-Plaza, N.Aguera-Lopez, D.Perez-Grande Innovative Electric Propulsion trends, concurrent mission design and enabling technologies for a bold CubeSat Lunar Positioning published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	The 35th International Electric Propulsion Conference Winner of Young Visionary paper	2020-01-20
2017	G. Sanchez-Arriaga, J. Zhou, E. Ahedo, M. MartÃnez-SÃ¡nchez, J.J. Ramos One-dimensional Direct Vlasov Simulations of Non-stationary Plasma Expansion in Magnetic Nozzle published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	The 35th International Electric Propulsion Conference IEPC-2017-106 (partial funding)	2020-01-20
2017	D, Packan The â€œMINOTORâ€ H2020 project for ECR thruster development published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	The 35th International Electric Propulsion Conference IEPC-2017-547, 08/10/2017	2020-01-20

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