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🔗 Plasma Jet Electric Thrusters for Spacecraft (Video)

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Plasma Jet Electric Thrusters for Spacecraft

Demonstrate a prototype electric pulsed plasma jet thruster which can enable highly reliable, high performance, low cost interplanetary space transportation.

Our Vision

Our vision is to design, build, and experimentally demonstrate a prototype pulsed plasma jet thruster targeted for orbital maneuvering, asteroid/comet rendezvous, orbital debris cleanup and interplanetary transportation…

Our technical objectives for this thruster development project are to meet or exceed the following thruster performance goals:

• Design and construct a high density gas fed plasma thruster operated at an average continuous input power level of about 1.0 kW
• Achieve a specific impulse (Isp) of 2000 sec (which means an average exhaust velocity of about 20,000 m/s)
• Operate at 5 pulses per second (5 Hz) for a minimum duration of one minute