Interest in high power electromagnetic propulsion has been revived to support a variety of future space missions, such as platform maneuvering in low earth orbit, cost-effective cargo transport to lunar and Mars bases, asteroid and outer planet sample return, deep space robotic exploration, and piloted missions to Mars, and the outer planets. Magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thrusters have demonstrated, at the laboratory level, the capacity to process megawatts of electrical power while providing higher thrust densities than current electric propulsion systems.
NASA GRC High Power Electromagnetic Thruster Program
2004
16 pages
Report
No indication
English
Space Technology , Electric & Ion Propulsion , Electric propulsion , Thrusters , NASA programs , Magnetohydrodynamics , Electromagnetic propulsion , Propulsion systems , Space missions , Mars exploration , Deep space , Cargo transportation , Test facilities , Planetary environments , Magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters
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