Design Principles and Preliminary Testing of a Micropropulsion Electrospray Thruster Research Platform

The need for micropropulsion solutions for spacecraft has been steadily increasing as scientific payloads require higher accuracy maneuvers and as the use of small form-factor spacecraft such as CubeSats becomes more common. Of the technologies used for this purpose, electrospray thrusters offer per...

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Main Author: McGehee, Will Alan
Format: Others
Published: DigitalCommons@CalPoly 2019
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2064
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3526&context=theses