This viewgraph presentation describes the overall Plasma Thruster Experiment (PTX), it's purpose and design, compact toroid propulsion, advantages and requirements of a plasmoid thruster, the projected efficiency, theta-pinch formation, a simulation of the PTX Coil/Bank Circuit using SPICE, the test firing of the PTX Capacitor Bank, PTX diagnostics, the excluded flux array, thruster simulations using MOQUI, and future work on the PTX.


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    Title :

    The Plasmoid Thruster Experiment (PTX)


    Contributors:
    Eskridge, R. (author) / Martin, Adam (author) / Lee, Michael (author) / Smith, James (author) / Koelfgen, Syri (author)

    Conference:

    14th Annual NASA/MSFC/JPL Advanced Space Propulsion Workshop ; 2003 ; Huntsville, AL, United States


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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