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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"gallium electromagnetic (GEM) thruster"”.
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Development and Testing of a Gallium Electromagnetic (GEM) Thruster
"An ablative, quasi-steady electromagnetic plasma accelerator is tested to quantify various characteristics of its operation. An array of diagnostics are used to characterize a gallium plasma produced by an arc discharge with current levels in the range of 5.6 - 22.6 kA. Discharge current and arc …
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Investigation of the GEM MPD thruster using the MACH2 magnetohydrodynamics code
… the results of previous experimental work on the gallium electromagnetic (GEM) thruster. MACH2 was also used to examine possible changes to the GEM thruster that could improve the performance of the actual thruster. Thruster radius ratios of 3.4 and 5 were examined, and a mass flow rate of 6 g/s …