The University of Michigan and United States Air Force Research Laboratory have jointly developed a 5 kW class Hall effect thruster. This thruster was developed to investigate, with a variety of diagnostics, a thruster similar to that specified by IHPRPT goals. The configuration of this thruster is adjustable so that diagnostic access to the interior of the thruster can be provided as necessary, and to allow for the exploration of various thruster geometries. At nominal conditions, the thruster was designed to operate at 5 kW with a predicted specific impulse of 2200 s. The actual operating parameters at 5 kW were 2326 s specific impulse, with 246 mN of thrust at an efficiency of 57%. These conditions are comparable to those of thrusters under commercial development, making the information learned from the study of this thruster applicable to the understanding of its commercial counterparts.
Performance Characteristics of a 5 kW Laboratory Hall Thruster
1996
9 pages
Report
No indication
English
Electric & Ion Propulsion , Laboratory tests , Performance(Engineering) , Research facilities , Hall thrusters , Probes , Laser induced fluorescence , Vacuum chambers , Molecular beams , Mass spectrometers , Analyzers , Rocket propulsion , Particle flux , Ihprpt(Integrated high payoff rocket propulsion technology) , Pepl(Plasmadynamics and electric propulsion laboratory) , Retarding potential analyzers , Neutral particle flux probes
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