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Card 937 of 9982026-08-29 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-08-29

Vidyut Wants to Sell the Power Unit Behind the Thruster

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Editorial interest 84/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

Vidyut is developing lightweight GaN-based power-processing and control units for Hall-effect electric-propulsion thrusters.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-29 issue.

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The proposed PPCU uses one discharge stage across three target power classes, from 50–500 W through 5 kW-plus, rather than treating each thruster application as a separate electronics project. The site says its silicon ZVZCS breadboard is running, while the GaN engineering model remains in design. Planned gates include vacuum-load, thermal-vacuum, EMI, arc-survival, and ignition-transient testing before a thruster-coupled vacuum campaign.

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