After successful validation of the design, swaged cathode heaters have been delivered by the NASA Glenn Research Center to Aerojet Rocketdyne for the fabrication of the NEXT-C ion thruster . NASA Glenn Research Center re-established and validated process controls as well as completed cyclic life testing of development heaters. Following an extensive requalification program, fabrication of a flight batch of heaters was executed using the qualified process controls. Of the 28 heaters fabricated in this flight batch, a set of six heaters were acceptance and cyclic tested to verify conformance with operational requirements. Upon completion of 200 percent of the NEXT-C cyclic requirement, the heater batch was certified by NASA for use in the flight hollow cathodes. Nine heaters from the batch of 28 were provided to Aerojet Rocketdyne in early 2018 for cathode fabrication. This paper summarizes the acceptance and cyclic life testing of the flight heaters and preliminary findings of post-test analyses.


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    Titel :

    Qualification of the Flight Heaters for the NEXT-C Hollow Cathodes


    Beteiligte:
    Arthur, Neil (Autor:in) / Sarver-Verhey, Tim (Autor:in) / Mackey, Jon (Autor:in) / Soulas, George (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Joint Propulsion Energy Forum ; 2019 ; Indianapolis, IN, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2019-08-21


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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