International Workshop on Ion Propulsion and Accelerator Industrial Application

Session

ion propulsion 2

2 Mar 2017, 14:05

CNR Nanotec, Bari, Italy

Conveners

ion propulsion 2

• Stephane Mazouffre (CNRS - ICARE)

5. Concepts in Low Power Hall Thruster Design - A Personal Perspective

Prof. Igal Kronhaus (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

02/03/2017, 14:05

Oral

Following the general trend in miniaturization of technology there is a growing interest in using microsatellites (< 100 kg) and nanosatellites (< 10 kg) to replace larger and more expensive platforms. To enable these capabilities, small, low mass, and efficient electric propulsion systems are required. Due to their inherent propellant mass economy, Hall effect thrusters (HET) are an obvious...

18. HYBRID MODELLING OF SINGLE AND DOUBLE STAGE HALL THRUSTERS

Dr laurent GARRIGUES (Laplace, CNRS)

02/03/2017, 14:35

Oral

Hall Thrusters (HTs) – also referred as Stationary Plasma Thrusters (SPT) in the literature – are now a mature technology to be used on board satellites to maintain a spacecraft on a geostationary orbit and for scientific probe missions able to explore the solar system. In a HT, a heavy gas, most often xenon, is introduced through an anode plane and is ionized by an electron current coming...

17. Kinetic modeling of electrostatic ion thrusters

Mrs Julia Duras (Nuremberg Institute of Technology)

02/03/2017, 15:05

Oral

The development of optimized electrostatic ion thrusters for space propulsion is until now a trial-and-error procedure. The need for expensive prototypes, extensive testing and iterative improvements is non-optimal in terms of time and costs. In other fields of research modeling is used to minimize the number of iterations, replacing real prototypes by virtual prototypes tested in numerical...