Large scale cargo transportation to support human missions to the Moon and Mars will require very high power Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) systems operating between 200 and 400 kW. Aerojet Rocketdyne's NextSTEP program is developing and demonstrating a 100 kW EP system, the XR-100, using a Nested Hall Thruster (NHT) designed for powers up to 200 kW, a modular power processor and a modular flow controller. The three year program objective is to operate the integrated EP system continuously at 100 kW for 100 h, advancing this very high power Electric Propulsion (EP) system to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5. With our University of Michigan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA Glenn Research Center teammates, Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed the initial phase of the program, including operating the thruster at up to 30 kW to validate the thermal models and developing and operating multiple power processor modules in the required seriesparallel configuration. The current phase includes completing a TRL 4 integrated system test at reduced power to validate all system operating phases. Design upgrades to demonstrate the TRL 5 capabilities are underway. This paper will present the high power XR-100 capabilities, overall program and design approach and the latest test results for the 100 kW EP system demonstration program.


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    Titel :

    100 kW Nested Hall Thruster System Development


    Beteiligte:
    Jackson, Jerry (Autor:in) / Allen, May (Autor:in) / Myers, Roger (Autor:in) / Hoskins, Andy (Autor:in) / Soendker, Erich (Autor:in) / Welander, Benjamin (Autor:in) / Tolentino, Artie (Autor:in) / Hablitzel, Sam (Autor:in) / Hall, Scott (Autor:in) / Gallimore, Alec (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    International Electric Propulsion Conference ; 2017 ; Atlanta, GA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2017-10-08


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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