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Review of Technology and Research on Inductive Pulsed Plasma Thruster

 CHENG  Mou-Sen, LI  Xiao-Kang, CHE  Bi-Xuan, GUO  Da-Wei   

  1. (National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China)
  • Received:2017-07-28 Online:2017-10-20 Published:2018-01-03

Abstract:   Abstract:The principle and virtues of the concept of inductive pulsed plasma thruster (IPPT) are introduced based on the interpretation of extensive literatures and expertise from experience. The stateoftheart for IPPT attained by oversea and domestic researchers are concluded by reviewing the institutes and programs, components and system integration experiments, modeling and numerical simulation. The technical challenges are identified and the approaches are proposed.    

Key words: current sheet, pulsed plasma thruster, magnetic propulsion

CLC Number: 

  • V439