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Thermal Modelling and Validation of Heat Profiles in an RF Plasma Micro-Thruster
… is an electrothermal plasma thruster called Pocket Rocket. Pocket Rocket is a low-power, low-cost propulsion platform specifically designed for use in nanosatellites such as CubeSats. Due to difficulties associated with integrating propulsion devices onto spacecraft such as volume constraints …
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Micro-Nozzle Simulation and Test for an Electrothermal Plasma Thruster
… system currently under development, known as Pocket Rocket, is an electrothermal plasma micro-thruster.</p> <p>Pocket Rocket uses a capacitively coupled plasma, generated by radio-frequency, in order to provide neutral gas heating via ion-neutral collisions within a gas discharge tube. When …
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Supersonic Constricted Plasma Flows
The Pocket Rocket electrothermal microthruster is a miniaturised electric propulsion system designed for nanosatellites operating in space. A weakly ionised capacitively coupled plasma is ignited in the flowing Ar gas propellant within a constricted discharge chamber at 1 Torr using less than 10 W …
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Supersonic Constricted Plasma Flows
The Pocket Rocket electrothermal microthruster is a miniaturised electric propulsion system designed for nanosatellites operating in space. A weakly ionised capacitively coupled plasma is ignited in the flowing Ar gas propellant within a constricted discharge chamber at 1 Torr using less than 10 W …
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Electrode Geometry Effects in an Electrothermal Plasma Microthruster
… is an electrothermal plasma thruster known as Pocket Rocket (PR). This device heats neutral propellant gas by exposing it to a Capacitively Coupled Plasma (CCP), then expels the heated gas to produce thrust. Significant work has gone towards understanding how PR creates and sustains a plasma …
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A CubeSAT Orbital Test Platform for an Electrothermal Plasma Micro-Thruster
… Team. This thesis will baseline the use of Pocket Rocket, an electrothermal plasma micro-thruster, originally developed by the Australian National University. The thruster has seen continued development with the PolySat team, and the PolySat version's performance and form factor is used in …