Systems and methods for powering an electrical thruster (112) of a vehicle (100). The methods comprise providing an unregulated high voltage output current of a high voltage solar array (122) directly to an electric propulsion system (104) of the vehicle. The electric propulsion system generates a converted high voltage current by converting a voltage level of the unregulated high voltage output current. The converted high voltage current is supplied directly to an anode of the electrical thruster. A regulated low voltage current is also generated by regulating a low voltage output of a low voltage solar array (124). The regulated low voltage current is used to supply power to at least one electronic component of the electrical thruster.


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    Title :

    POWER ARCHITECTURE FOR SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION APPLICATIONS


    Contributors:
    LU CHENG-YI (author)

    Publication date :

    2017-10-26


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS



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