Platform · under development

One core stage, three power classes.

A modular, lightweight GaN-based PPCU platform, not a catalogue — the envelopes below are design targets we will freeze with early integration partners, informed by the team's silicon ZVZCS flight-programme heritage and today's silicon breadboard.

CLASS I

Sub-kilowatt PPCU

50–500 W Hall and cathode-heater systems on small satellites — the volume end of the constellation market.

CLASS II · FIRST EM

Kilowatt-class PPCU

1–2 kW for LEO station-keeping and orbit topping — the workhorse class, and the first engineering model we build.

CLASS III

High-power PPCU

5 kW+ for orbit raising and all-electric buses — where the team's 6.5 kW heritage lives.

EnvelopeTargetBasisStatus
Power classes~0.05–0.5 / 1–2 / 5+ kWMarket classes served by merchant PPUs todayDesign target
Discharge topologyResonant soft-switched · wide-bandgap GaNCarried from team ZVZCS heritage at 6.5 kW / 90% (ISRO programme, silicon)Silicon breadboard running · GaN EM in design
Efficiency>90% class goalHeritage-derived; to be evidenced per classTo be measured on EM
MassSubstantially lighter per kW than legacy silicon unitsMagnetics shrink with switching frequency (GaN)To be evidenced on EM
OutputsDischarge · heater · keeper · magnets · housekeepingStandard Hall-system complementArchitecture frozen at EM design
ControlFPGA sequencing, protection, telemetryTeam background in high-rel embedded/FPGAIn design

Not a procurement datasheet — target envelopes for integration discussions, updated as test gates are passed.

Discuss integration requirements
Questions we get

Straight answers

Why buy a merchant PPCU at all?
Because a PPU is a full space-power-electronics programme hiding inside "a thruster". Building one in-house diverts a plasma team into converter design, EMI and qualification for years. A merchant unit turns that into an interface-control document and a test campaign.
Why GaN?
Because a PPU's mass lives mostly in its electromagnetics, and their size falls with switching frequency. Wide-bandgap GaN devices switch fast enough to shrink them — the route to a substantially lighter unit per kW. Our engineering model is designed around GaN FET candidates with published radiation data, derated and screened for space-relevant risks; the silicon ZVZCS breadboard remains the qualification anchor while that design matures. The field analysis is on the landscape page.
Why India?
Because that is where the supply gap and the customers meet: no merchant EP power supplier exists in India today, domestic demand is compounding, and proximity matters in a hardware integration business. We are a private company; the heritage is our team's, not an affiliation.
What is your export posture?
Export-control-aware by design: Indian design authority and a non-US-origin architecture reduce licensing friction for many buyers, but specific transactions always require their own review. We do not market legal conclusions.
How will you qualify hardware?
Through the planned sequence on the technology page — bench sweeps, thermal-vac and EMI on the engineering model, arc and ignition campaigns against a simulator, then a thruster-coupled vacuum firing. Gates published as they are passed.