Engineering:Vacuum arc thruster
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A vacuum arc thruster (VAT) is a form of electric spacecraft propulsion. It uses a vacuum arc discharge, across an insulator, between two electrodes to produce thrust.[1] A metal plasma is produced from micrometer-size cathodic spots. Thus, whereas the insulator is used as propellant in a pulsed plasma thruster, in a VAT the metallic cathode is consumed as propellant.
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References
- ↑ Lunn, Jonathan (17 November 2016). "Vacuum Arc Thruster and Method of Operating the Same" (in en). WIPO IP Portal. https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2016181360.
External links
- Schein, J.; Qi, N.; Binder, R.; Krishnan, M.; Ziemer, J. K.; Polk, J. E.; Anders, A. (February 2002). "Inductive energy storage driven vacuum arc thruster". Review of Scientific Instruments 73 (2): 925–927. doi:10.1063/1.1428784. Bibcode: 2002RScI...73..925S. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1428784.
- Chowdhury, Satyajit; Kronhaus, Igal (19 June 2020). "Characterization of Vacuum Arc Thruster Performance in Weak Magnetic Nozzle". Aerospace 7 (6): 82. doi:10.3390/aerospace7060082. Bibcode: 2020Aeros...7...82C.
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