Plume Characterization of a One-Millipound Solid Teflon Pulsed Plasma Thruster.

Abstract

An evaluation was made of the pulsed plasma thruster plume-wall backscatter characteristics of the MOLSINK facility. On the thruster axis, this backscatter drops off to zero as the angle between the axis and wall location reaches 40. This wall backscatter was found to be essentially symmetric about the plume axis. The total integrated backscatter from the MOLSINK wall is approximately equal to 5% of the total mass injected from the pulsed plasma thruster during the discharge pulse.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA065526

Entities

People

  • D. J. Fitzgerald
  • L. C. Pless
  • L. K. Rudolph

Organizations

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anechoic Chambers
  • Difference Frequency
  • Electric Propulsion
  • Electronic Circuits
  • Frequency
  • Heart Rate
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Low Temperature
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Oscillators
  • Pulsed Plasma Thrusters
  • Quartz Crystal Microbalances
  • Repetition Rate
  • Rocket Propulsion
  • Spacecraft
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster