タイトル | Performance of a quasi-steady, multi megawatt, coaxial plasma thruster |
本文(外部サイト) | http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19940028464 |
著者(英) | Black, Dorwin C.; Mayo, Robert M.; Scheuer, Jay T.; Henins, Ivars; Gerwin, Richard A.; Moses, Ronald W., Jr.; Hoyt, Robert P.; Schoenberg, Kurt F.; Gribble, Robert F.; Garcia, Jose A. |
著者所属(英) | Los Alamos National Lab. |
発行日 | 1994-04-01 |
言語 | eng |
内容記述 | The Los Alamos National Laboratory Coaxial Thruster Experiment (CTX) has been upgraded to enable the quasisteady operation of magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) type thrusters at power levels from 2 to 40 MW for 10 ms. Diagnostics include an eight position, three axis magnetic field probe to measure magnetic field fluctuations during the pulse; a triple Langmuir probe to measure ion density, electron temperature, and plasma potential; and a time-of-flight neutral particle spectrometer to measure specific impulse. Here we report on the experimental observations and associated analysis and interpretation of long-pulse, quasisteady, coaxial thruster performance in the CTX device. |
NASA分類 | SPACECRAFT PROPULSION AND POWER |
レポートNO | 94N32970 NASA-CR-195311 E-8723 NAS 1.26:195311 |
権利 | No Copyright |
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