Multi-mode Hall thruster development

37th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  King, D Q ^a   de Grys, K H ^a   Jankovsky, R ^b  

^a GENERAL DYNAMICS Space Propulsion Systems   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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References (8)

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2. Wilson, F., King, D., Aadland, R., Tilley, D., de Grys, K, Hruby, V., Pote, B., "Development Status of the PRIMEX BPT Family of Hall Thruster Systems," AIAA 99-2573, 1999.
3. Hruby, V J. "Hall Field Plasma Accelerator with an Inner and Outer Anode", U.S. Patent 6,075,321.
4. King, D.Q., de Grys, K.H., Aadland, R.S., Tilley, D.L., Voigt, A.W., "Magnetic Flux Shaping in Ion Accelerators with Closed Electron Drift," U.S. Patent No. 6,208,080, issued March 27, 2001.
5. Morozov, A.I., Esipchuk, Yu. V., Kapulkin, A.M., Nevrovskii, V.A., and Smirnov, V.A., "Effect of the Magnetic Field on a Closed-Electron Drift Accelerator", Sov. Phys. - Tech. Phys., V17, No. 3, pp 482-487, September 1972.
6. Gavryushin, V.M., and Kim, V., "Effect of the Characteristics of a Magnetic Field on the Parameters of an Ion Current at the Output of an Accelerator with Closed Electron Drift," Sov. Phys. Tech. Phys 26(4), pp 505507, April 1981.
7. Kristi H. de Grys, Dennis L. Tilley, Randy S. Aadland, "BPT Hall Thruster Plume Characteristics," AIAA 99-2283, July 1999.
8. Pollard, J.E., Diamant, K.D., Khayms, V., Werthman, L, King, D.Q, and de Grys, K.H, "Ion Flux, Energy, and Charge-State Measurements for the BPT-4000 Hall Thruster," AIAA 2001-3351.