Developing a space shuttle experiment for Hall and pulsed plasma thrusters

Very little data on Hall and Pulsed Plasma Thrusters has been taken in the hard vacuum of space. The Environment Effects Verifatication experiment is designed to take archival-quality data in space in the plume and far-field regions of these thrusters. Student involvement is a key element of the experiment, which is supported by the Massachusetts Space Grant and the Education branch of NASA. Design of the experiment is currently in the preliminary phase. A new facility at MIT, called the Micro Propulsion Lab, is available for testing related to this experiment, and some initial ground tests of a lab model Hall thruster have been completed.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Thomas, Stephanie (Stephanie Jeanne), 1977-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Manuel Martinez-Sanchez.

• Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8899

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