Work on Kaufman thruster development completed during the years 1971 and 1972 is reviewed. Thrusters tested have ranged in size from 2.5-cm to 150-cm diameters, in thrust from 0.4 to 4300 mN, and in power from 0.03 to 203 kW. A 2.5-cm thruster was briefly tested and found to have surprisingly high thruster efficiency. Emphasis is placed on thruster system reliability and lifetime as previous work has increased thruster efficiency to a high level. Work also proceeds on definition of thruster-spacecraft interactions. Major R&D efforts are directed at present into two areas of thruster size: a 5-cm to 8-cm diameter thruster to be used for station keeping and attitude control of geosynchronous spacecraft; and a 30-cm diameter thruster to be used for primary propulsion in a 3- to 7-thruster array for solar electric propulsion of interplanetary spacecraft.


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    Titel :

    Review of Kaufman thruster development at the Lewis Research Center - 1973


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    Conference on Electric propulsion of space vehicles ; 1973 ; Berks.


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1973-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :




    Kaufman thruster development at Lewis Research Center

    Kerslake, W. R. / Reader, P. D. | NTRS | 1971


    Kaufman thruster development at Lewis Research Center

    Kerslake, W. R. / Reader, P. D. | NTRS | 1971


    Radial field Kaufman thruster

    KNAUER, W. / POESCHEL, R. / WARD, J. | AIAA | 1969