Study of multi-cusped plasma thruster applied to Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion

被引：7

作者：

Hu, Peng ^{[1
]}

Shen, Yan ^{[2
]}

Yao, Zhaopu ^{[1
]}

Mao, Wei ^{[1
]}

Hu, Yanlin ^{[1
]}

Liu, Xuhui ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Beijing Inst Control Engn, Beijing 100094, Peoples R China

[2] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Aeronaut & Astronaut, Guangzhou 510006, Peoples R China

来源：

VACUUM | 2021年 / 190卷

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

Multi-cusped plasma thruster; Air-breathing electric propulsion; Large power range; Super low orbit;

D O I：

10.1016/j.vacuum.2021.110275

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion (ABEP) is a unique propulsion concept, it uses atmosphere molecules as propellant and becomes a promising technique to solve the lifetime problems in the super low orbit. A Multicusped field thruster MCFT-2139 is designed and a nitrogen ignition experiment is conducted to evaluate the feasibility of this technology. The thruster could operate in an extremely large power range from 6 x 10-2 W to 1.3 x 103 W. In the 1.06 mg/s anode flow rate and 1000V anode voltage condition, the thrust reaches 13.3 mN and the thruster anode power is 997 W. All these performance characteristics indicate that the Multi-cusped plasma thruster is a promising thruster for the application of ABEP.

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