This viewgraph presentation describes the overall Plasma Thruster Experiment (PTX), it's purpose and design, compact toroid propulsion, advantages and requirements of a plasmoid thruster, the projected efficiency, theta-pinch formation, a simulation of the PTX Coil/Bank Circuit using SPICE, the test firing of the PTX Capacitor Bank, PTX diagnostics, the excluded flux array, thruster simulations using MOQUI, and future work on the PTX.
The Plasmoid Thruster Experiment (PTX)
14th Annual NASA/MSFC/JPL Advanced Space Propulsion Workshop ; 2003 ; Huntsville, AL, United States
2003-01-01
Preprint
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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