With the development of microspacecraft, the field of electrical micropropulsion is a rapidly
expanding discipline. New ideas are being explored constantly and a review of the current …

Micropropulsion systems are rapidly gaining attention from the small satellite community as
they can increase the mission lifetime and allow the satellite to perform complex maneuvers …

Renewed interest in space exploration and aspirations for colonization of Mars, Moon and
possibly other extra-terrestrial bodies puts pressure on the present-day space technology to …

Novel technologies and design techniques of the active attitude control systems (ACS) for
microspacecraft are briefly covered in this survey. Electric propulsion (EP) thrusters for …

This study focused on the development of a vacuum cathode arc thruster (VAT), particularly
on its design, manufacturing process, and demonstration. Characteristically, the proposed …

Current vacuum arc thruster systems show insufficient reliability in the low-power (≤ 1 W)
operation mode, which is required for CubeSat propulsion systems. Typically, the failure of …

Vacuum arc thruster (VAT) is a type of pulsed electric propulsion device that generates thrust
based on vacuum arc discharges, it has great candidate for micro-newton force applications …

In order to support increasingly detailed simulation models in the field of plasma generation
and expansion, more experimental data are needed to prove and verify these models. In …

In order to increase the production of plasma jets in a pulse vacuum discharge, based on the
insulated anode electrode structure (IAES), discharge experiments by using multiple …

Micro-cathode arc thrusters have been widely used in micro-nanosatellites owing to their
high specific impact, long lifetime, repeatable startup, low thrust and high control precision …