Electric Micropropulsion

Abstract

We report here results obtained from our research in two areas: fully kinetic modeling of the plasma in Hall thrusters, and fluid modeling plus time-of-flight experiments on cone-jet colloid emitters for micropropulsion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 08, 2003
Accession Number
ADA411187

Entities

People

  • Manuel Martinez-sanchez

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detectors
  • Distribution Functions
  • Electron Energy
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Engine Clusters
  • Engines
  • Fluids
  • Hall Thrusters
  • High Voltage
  • Ion Thrusters
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Spectra
  • Thrusters

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster