ThrustMe
| ThrustMe | |
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 3 February 2017 |
| Founder | Ane Aanesland, Dmytro Rafalskyi |
| Headquarters | , France |
Key people | Ane Aanesland (CEO), Dmytro Rafalskyi (CTO) |
| Products | Spacecraft propulsion |
Number of employees | 11–20 |
| Website | https://www.thrustme.fr/ |
ThrustMe is a deep tech that designs miniature aerospace thrusters for small satellites, increasing the life of satellites and making them more affordable.[1][2]
The company builds gridded ion thrusters (NPT30)[3] and cold gas thrusters (I2T5).[4]
History
ThrustMe was founded in 2017 by Ane Aanesland and Dmytro Rafalskyi who had previously worked at the école polytechnique de Paris and the CNRS as experts in plasma physics and electric propulsion.[5] Initially, the startup was incubated in Agoranov.[6] Also in 2017, ThrustMe raised 1.7 million euros for its development.[7]
In 2018, ThrustMe received €2.4 million from the European Commission to commercialise electric propulsion for nanosatellites.[8]
In 2019, Ane Aanesland received the CNRS innovation medal for her entrepreneurial activities.[9] The same year SpaceTy and ThrustMe orbited the first satellite using iodine for propulsion.[10]
In 2021, SpaceTy and ThrustMe have achieved the first in-orbit demonstration of an electric propulsion system powered by iodine.[3][11][12]
Awards
- French Tech Ticket, 2017.[13]
- "Grand Prix i-LAB" of the 19th national competition to help the creation of innovative technology companies, 2017.[14]
- "Prix de l'Excellence Française Innovation Spatiale", 2017.[15]
- "Médaille de l’innovation du CNRS", for Ane Aanesland, 2019.[16][17]
References
- ^ Lestavel, Thomas (2019-04-17). "La start-up ThrustMe divise par trois les coûts d'accès à l'espace". Le Figaro.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-22.
- ^ "How Iodine Electric Propulsion Systems Can Enable The Economic Sustainability Of Satellite Constellations". satmagazine.com. 2021-02-XX. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b "French startup demonstrates iodine propulsion in potential boost for space debris mitigation efforts". Spacenews. 2020-03-25. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ "Iodine Impulse for Smallsats Demo'd On-Orbit by ThrustMe and Spacety". Smallsat News. 2019-11-25. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ "Un nouvel espace pour les start-up". La Jaune et la Rouge (in French). 2018-06-03. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ^ Meddah, Hassan (2017-07-08). "ThrustMe emmène les minisatellites en orbite". L'Usine Nouvelle (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ "French startup raises $1.9 million for smallsat electric propulsion". SpaceNews.com. 2017-06-16. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ^ "Electric propulsion startup ThrustMe gets $2.8 million from European Commission". SpaceNews.com. 2018-08-09. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ^ "Ane Aanesland, de chercheuse au CNRS à CEO de ThrustMe | Bpifrance servir l'avenir". www.bpifrance.fr (in French). 10 July 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ^ Couto, Alexandre (2019-11-04). "ThrustMe met en orbite le premier satellite utilisant de l'iode pour se propulser". Industry-techno (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ^ "ThrustMe's Iodine Propulsion System Launched Aboard Spacety's Smallsat". Satnews. 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ "Iodine thruster could slow space junk accumulation". esa.int. 2021-01-22. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ "Les 70 startups internationales lauréates du french tech ticket saison 2" (PDF). finances.gouv.fr (in French). 2017-03-07. p. 27. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ "Quatre projets lauréats du Concours i-LAB 2017 (dont un Grand Prix) sont accompagnés par la SATT Paris-Saclay" (PDF) (in French). SATT Paris-Saclay. 2017-07-07. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ "Palmarès Spécial Innovation Spatiale 2017 -". Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ^ Poncet, Guerric (2019-11-28). "Ane Aanesland, la mécano de l'espace". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Koppe, Martin (2019-12-09). "Four Aces for Innovation". news.cnrs.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-26.