This paper offers a user-centric consolidation and comparison of the full range of
government and commercial solar electric propulsion options available in the near term for …

NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) project encompasses the development of a
high performance, nominal 7-kW, Electric Propulsion Thruster (EPT); a light weight, high …

The NASA s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) program is tasked with significantly
improving and extending the capabilities of current state-of-the-art NSTAR thruster. The …

An overview of Hall thruster research and development tasks conducted by the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's John H. Glenn Research Center during fiscal year …

Ion thruster plumes are simulated under a framework that was recently developed to take
advantage of the large scalability of unstructured grids using adaptive mesh refinement …

Ion thruster plumes are simulated under a recently developed computer framework inside a
vacuum chamber at various background pressures for single-and triple-thruster …

ISP= specific impulse, s JB= beam current, A JNK= neutralizer keeper current, A mC=
discharge cathode flowrate, sccm mM= discharge chamber main plenum flowrate, sccm …

NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster program is developing the next-generation solar-
electric ion propulsion system to provide future NASA science missions with enhanced in …

The erosion of the discharge cathode assembly (DCA) is currently one of the lifetime limiting
factors of ion thruster operation and will play an even more important role for more …

NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) project encompasses the development of a
high performance, nominal 7-kW, Electric Propulsion Thruster; a light weight, high efficiency …