Plasma propulsion technology for the lowest orbital frontier.

Satellites can’t survive long in the residual atmosphere at these altitudes — drag pulls them out of orbit within days. But what becomes possible if they can dwell there instead? The lowest orbits offer strategic and commercial advantages precisely because almost nothing else can operate there: higher atmospheric density, higher drag, and higher thrust-to-power demand rapidly degrade conventional missions.

Persistence in VLEO needs a propulsion-first approach — every other part of the mission stack depends on propulsion holding the orbit. JivaJet’s architectures are engineered to close that gap: air-breathing thrust that collects and ionizes atmospheric particles without stored propellant, and compact metal-propellant electric propulsion for sustained mobility.

Drag-compensation physics

Demonstrated — >1.6 N thrust and >5 N/kW measured at high-flow laboratory test points.

Integrated propulsion system

Demonstrated — direct ingestion, circular-arc ionization, pulsed acceleration, and self-neutralized exhaust validated end to end.

Adaptive operation

Demonstrated — control software adjusts pulse rate, power, and thrust response as atmospheric density changes.

Inlet capture efficiency

In progress — hypersonic wind-tunnel testing underway to increase capture efficiency and net-thrust margin.

HyABPT’s ~200 W operating power is spacecraft-manageable — a fraction of what a Hall-effect thruster needs to produce equivalent drag-compensating thrust in VLEO.

vs. benchmark metal-propulsion micropropulsion

Up to ~30× higher thrust-to-power

vs. FEEP / electrospray comparators

~55% higher thrust-to-power than the industry average

vs. heritage Hall-effect & single-stage arc systems

Multi-axis, tankless control without a centralized, tank-dominated architecture