Two thruster sizes are studied. One, a small 5-cm or 8-cm size is for spacecraft station keeping. The other, 30-cm (130 mN thrust), is for a thruster array to do primary solar electric propulsion. A 5-cm thruster (1.8 mN) has recently completed 9715 hr of life testing. Use of dished grids in the 30-cm thruster has increased beam current from 2 to 5 A. The total thrust system mass is compared for present small thrusters at different operating conditions for station keeping of synchronous satellites.


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    Title :

    Review of Kaufman thruster development at the Lewis Research Center, 1973


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Elec. Propulsion Conf. ; 1973 ; Culham


    Publication date :

    1973-04-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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