Major advancements have been made in solid propellant pulsed plasma propulsion technology. A LES-6 microthruster has operated for 8900 hours in orbit. Millipound thrustors have been developed and tested at performance levels of as low as 112 watts/mlb. Efficiencies of up to 50% and specific impulse values up to 5000 sec have been measured. An improved microthrustor has operated at 207 watts/mlb continuously for 1440 hours. Correlations of design and performance data exist to allow thrustors to be built to meet a particular level of performance.


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    Titel :

    Continuing development of the short-pulsed ablative space propulsion system.


    Beteiligte:
    Palumbo, D. J. (Autor:in) / Guman, W. J. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Joint Propulsion Specialist Conference ; 1972 ; New Orleans, LA, US


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1972-11-01


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :



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