High Specific Impulse Missions
Status of Ion Engine Development for High Power, High Specific Impulse Missions FREE-DOWNLOAD uVK Rawlin, GJ Williams, LR Piñero… – IEPC Paper . for flight decreased to about 4000 seconds, as demonstrated in space on Space Electric Rocket Tests (SERT) I . of both is critical to the design of high-voltage optics for high power ion thrusters. . An assumed value of 2500 […]
Hall effect thrusters
Analysis of Hall effect thrusters and ion engines for orbit transfer missions FREE-DOWNLOAD FS Gulczinski… – American Institute of Aeronautics …, . Electric propulsion is a type of rocket propulsion for space vehicles and satellites which utilizes electric and . The electron cloud is generated by an applied electric field. . Thruster development has continued at various levels, using thrusters with diameters ranging […]
Optimization of electric thrusters
Optimization of electric thrusters for primary propulsion based on the rocket equation FREE-DOWNLOADM Auweter-Kurtz, H Kurtz – Journal of propulsion and power, 2003 . To compare electric propulsion systems with chemical rockets the total mass is divided as follows: m0 . By substituting the rocket equation 2 into all three equations obtained, they can be brought into the . For self-field MPD thrusters, […]