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Farfield plume measurement and analysis on the nasa-300m
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Kamhawi, Hani Soulas, George C. Shastry, Rohit Huang, Wensheng |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | NASA is developing a 15-kW Hall thruster to support future NASA missions. This activity is funded under the Space Technology Mission Directorate Solar Electric Propulsion Technology Demonstration project. As a part of the development process, the far-field plume characteristics of the NASA-300M, a 20-kW Hall thruster, were studied. The results will be used to study how various aspects of the operation of this thruster affect the overall performance. This data will be used to guide future design work and serve as a baseline for comparison to a magnetically shielded version of the NASA-300M that will be tested in the future. For this study, a far-field Faraday probe was swept in a polar fashion to map the ion current density. An ExB probe (Wien filter), two retarding potential analyzers, and a Langmuir probe were mounted at a fixed location on the thruster axis in the far-field plume. The data reduction method followed recommendations in recent studies by Brown, Reid, and Shastry with modifications that are tailored to the plasma plume environment of high-power Hall thrusters. Results from this and prior testing show that the plume is richer in doubly-charged ions, larger in spatial extent, and capable of greater probe heating than lower power thrusters. These characteristics require special treatment in experimental setup and data analysis, which will be the main focus of this paper. In particular, covered topics will include a new, more accurate, method of integration for analysis of the ExB probe data and effect of secondary electron emission on the Faraday probe data. |
| File Size | 3459398 |
| Page Count | 49 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20130014362 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6n064q91 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2013-04-29 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Propulsion And Power Hall Thrusters Density Measurement Plasmas Physics Faraday Effect Solar Electric Propulsion Far Fields Current Density Plumes Magnetic Shielding Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
