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Low-Cost, High-Performance Hall Thruster Support System [PDF]

Colorado Power Electronics (CPE) has built an innovative modular PPU for Hall thrusters, including discharge, magnet, heater and keeper supplies, and an interface module.
Hesterman, Bryce
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Mission to Psyche: Including Undergraduates and the Public on the Journey to a Metal World. [PDF]

Space Sci Rev, 2023
Bowman CDD, Elkins-Tanton LT, Talamante A, Bell JF, Cisneros E, Cook A, Frieman JD, Gainor D, Hunziker J, Khan S, Lawler CR, Maschino J, McCoy TJ, Nessi K, Oran R, Seal D, Simon A, Singh R, Tolbert CM, Valentine K, Weiss B, Wenkert DD, Williams DA.   +22 more
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Magnesium Hall Thruster [PDF]

This Phase II project is developing a magnesium (Mg) Hall effect thruster system that would open the door for in situ resource utilization (ISRU)-based solar system exploration. Magnesium is light and easy to ionize.
Szabo, James J.
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Plasma Dynamics and Electron Transport in a Hall-Thruster-Representative Configuration with Various Propellants: I—Variations with Discharge Voltage and Current Density

Plasma
The results from a wide-ranging parametric investigation into the behavior of the collisionless partially magnetized plasma discharge of three propellants—xenon, krypton, and argon—are reported in this two-part article.
Maryam Reza, Farbod Faraji, Aaron Knoll
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Research and Experiment on a Bionic Fish Based on High-Frequency Vibration Characteristics. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel), 2023
Zhang B, Chen Y, Wang Z, Ma H.
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Electrothermal oscillations and the quasilinear theory of electron enthalpy fluctuations in magnetohydrodynamic generators and magnetoplasmadynamic arc thrusters [PDF]

Flucturations in electron density and temperature coupled through OHM's Law are studied for MHD power generator and MPD arc thruster applications.
Smith, J. M.
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On-a-chip microdischarge thruster arrays inspired by photonic device technology for plasma television

, 2009
This study shows that the practical scaling of a hollow cathode thruster device to MEMS level should be possible albeit with significant divergence from traditional design.
Cranny, Andrew, Gabriel, Stephen B, Grubisic, Angelo, Jiang, Liudi, Kraft, Michael, White, Neil   +5 more
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Analysis of electric propulsion electrical power conditioning component technology, volume 2 Final report [PDF]

Large solar arrays to provide power for electric propulsion engine for Mars mapper ...
Jalichandra, P., Klynn, L., Shattuck, R.
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Comparison of computational algorithms for simulating an electrospray plume with a n-body approach. [PDF]

J Elect Propuls, 2022
Hampl SK, Waggoner MT, Gallud Cidoncha X, Petro EM, Lozano PC.   +4 more
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Test facility for 6000 hour life test of 30 cm mercury ion thruster [PDF]

The environmental and instrumentation requirements for long term testing of electrical propulsion thrusters which impose severe and unusual requirements upon the simulation facility were studied.
Caldwell, J. J.
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