Abstract An 85 W class Hall thruster with inner and outer electromagnetic coils was developed, and its thrust performance and plume characteristics were experimentally evaluated. The 85-W Hall thruster required a maximum magnetic flux density along the channel centerline above 24.3 mT to achieve stable and efficient operation above a discharge voltage of 225 V. A specific impulse of 1050 s, thrust-to-power ratio of 59.5 mN/kW, and anode efficiency of 0.306 were achieved at a discharge voltage of 225 V and a discharge power of 88.9 W under a background pressure of 7.9 × 10−4 Pa. Moreover, the thruster achieved throttling at a discharge power of 47.6–118.5 W with stable operation. The low anode efficiency of the 85-W Hall thruster was due to low propellant utilization and a large beam divergence. The short effective length for the propellant ionization owing to the narrow channel is deduced to be the cause for the low anode efficiency in low-power Hall thrusters. The mass utilization efficiency of the 85-W Hall thruster improved as the anode mass flow density increased. Therefore, an increase in the anode mass flow density is required to improve the performance of the 85-W Hall thruster.

    Highlights An 85-W Hall thruster with inner and outer coils was developed and evaluated. The thruster required >24.3 mT to achieve efficient operation above 225 V. Anode efficiency was low because of low mass utilization and beam efficiencies.


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    Titel :

    Performance and plume characteristics of an 85 W class Hall thruster


    Beteiligte:
    Watanabe, Hiroki (Autor:in) / Cho, Shinatora (Autor:in) / Kubota, Kenichi (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Acta Astronautica ; 166 ; 227-237


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2019-07-15


    Format / Umfang :

    11 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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