Electric thrusters are finding increasing usage worldwide in spacecraft applications.
Significant progress has been made in recent years in the modeling and performance of …

The rising deployment numbers of electric propulsion systems and the increased price of
noble gas propellants have created the demand for alternative propellants. Iodine is a very …

Magnetic shielding is a specific magnetic topology that can increase the lifespan of Hall
thrusters by an order of magnitude. Magnetically shielded thrusters have similar …

This study explores the impact of anode diameter, keeper-to-cathode distance, orifice
diameter, and keeper thickness on the discharge characteristics of the open-end emitter …

The characterization of an electric propulsion device cathode is performed in the so-called
diode configuration with an external anode. The anode acts as a physical boundary for the …

In this paper, we examine the characteristics of the ISCT100 thruster, a miniature xenon-
fueled 100-W permanent magnet Hall thruster (HT) suited for microspacecraft propulsion …

A heaterless plasma cathode using disc shaped C12A7 electride as emitter material is being
developed for electric propulsion systems in space. C12A7 electride is a calcium-aluminate …

A laboratory model of a 5 A-class cathode was experimentally studied in diode configuration
with a disk anode. The core of the cathode is a flat disk lanthanum hexaboride (LaB 6) insert …

Hollow cathodes are used as thermionic emitters in a variety of electric propulsion devices
such as the Hall thruster. This work studies the derivation and discusses the results of a …

Thermionic cathodes are essential for the operation of various electrostatic propulsion
devices. They strongly influence the performance and lifetime of the propulsion system. In …