Initial operation of a 10 ms, quasi-steady multi-megawatt, coaxial plasma thruster
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· AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop E526, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, Campus Box 7909, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7909 (United States)
- Aerospace and Energetics Research Program, FL-10, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 (United States)
The Los Alamos National Laboratory Coaxial Thruster Experiment (CTX) has been upgraded to enable the quasi-steady operation of MPD type thrusters at power levels from 1 to 40 MW for 10 ms. Initial diagnostics include an 8 position, 3 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 preliminary investigation of long-pulse quasi-steady coaxial thruster performance.
- OSTI ID:
- 6630784
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-930103--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States) Journal Volume: 271:3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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