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Review of Kaufman thruster development at the Lewis Research Center, 1973

Author
Kerslake, W. R.
Published
Apr 1, 1973.
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Summary
Two thruster sizes are studied. One, a small 5-cm or 8-cm size is for spacecraft station keeping. The other, 30-cm (130 mN thrust), is for a thruster array to do primary solar electric propulsion. A 5-cm thruster (1.8 mN) has recently completed 9715 hr of life testing. Use of dished grids in the 30-cm thruster has increased beam current from 2 to 5 A. The total thrust system mass is compared for present small thrusters at different operating conditions for station keeping of synchronous satellites.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 19730012101.
Accession ID: 73N20828.
NASA-TM-X-68202.
Elec. Propulsion Conf.; 10-12 Apr. 1973; Culham.
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