Hollow Plume Mitigation of a High-Efficiency Multistage Plasma Thruster

Since 2000, a relatively new electric thruster concept has been in research, development, and production at Thales Electron Devices in Germany. This High Efficiency Multistage Plasma Thruster, or HEMPT, has promising lifetime capabilities due to its plasma confinement system. However, the permanent...

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Main Author: McGrail, Scott Alan
Format: Others
Published: DigitalCommons@CalPoly 2013
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1133
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2196&context=theses