论文信息 - (X)MET: DESIGN AND TEST OF MICROWAVE ELECTROTHERMALTHRUSTERS WITH ARGON AND XENON SPACE PROPULSION 2020+1

(X)MET: DESIGN AND TEST OF MICROWAVE ELECTROTHERMALTHRUSTERS WITH ARGON AND XENON SPACE PROPULSION 2020+1

: This work presents design upgrades and test results of XMET, a Xenon Microwave Electrothermal Thruster. XMET uses a free-floating plasma discharge in a cylindrical resonant cavity operating at 2.45 GHz. It will be used as the reaction control system thruster for an integrated propulsion architecture for small GEO platforms in combination with a microwave based gridded ion engine. We discuss the theoretical background of METs, previous work and describe prototype optimisation done for XMET. Results from an extended test campaign characterising several breadboard configurations are given.

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