Light sometimes appears to be "dragged" by the motion of the medium through which it is traveling. This phenomenon, referred ...

This article is devoted to the presentation of a numerical model of a Helicon Plasma Thruster (HPT) which relies on: 1) the 3-D adVanced fluId dRifT diffUsion plaSma solver (3D-VIRTUS) for the ...

Typically, David et al. (1999) built a plume simulation model of a Hall thruster using the particle-in-cell-direct Monte Carlo collision (PIC-DSMC) method, and the results indicated that the plume ...

The team applied a neural network ensemble model to predict thruster performance using 18,000 Hall thruster training data points generated from their in-house numerical simulation tool. The in-house ...

Hall thrusters, a key space technology for missions like SpaceX's Starlink constellation and NASA's Psyche asteroid mission, are high-efficiency electric propulsion devices using plasma technology*.

Hall thrusters, a key space technology for missions like SpaceX's Starlink constellation and NASA's Psyche asteroid mission, are high-efficiency electric propulsion devices using plasma technology*.

This article is devoted to the presentation of a numerical model of a Helicon Plasma Thruster (HPT) which relies on: 1) the 3-D adVanced fluId dRifT diffUsion plaSma solver (3D-VIRTUS) for the ...

When operating in low Earth orbits, all plasma thruster plumes are further affected by the presence of the geomagnetic field of a magnitude of approximately 0.5 G, which can induce non-trivial ...

Kronhaus’s plasma thrusters are essentially a better version of a Hall thruster, a model developed in the former Soviet Union in the 1960s. The thruster does need some fuel but uses nonflammable, ...

Plasma thrusters that are used almost exclusively in orbit could soon become much more powerful by using krypton gas instead of xenon, according to new research. Such an increase in power for the ...