Conveners
ion propulsion 2
- Stephane Mazouffre (CNRS - ICARE)
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...
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...
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...
