A flight experiment and flight experiment package for a shuttle-borne flight test of an 8-cm mercury ion thruster was designed to obtain charged particle and neutral particle material transport data that cannot be obtained in conventional ground based laboratory testing facilities. By the use of both ground and space testing of ion thrusters, the flight worthiness of these ion thrusters, for other spacecraft applications, may be demonstrated. The flight experiment definition for the ion thruster initially defined a broadly ranging series of flight experiments and flight test sensors. From this larger test series and sensor list, an initial flight test configuration was selected with measurements in charged particle material transport, condensible neutral material transport, thruster internal erosion, ion beam neutralization, and ion thrust beam/space plasma electrical equilibration. These measurement areas may all be examined for a seven day shuttle sortie mission and for available test time in the 50 - 100 hour period.


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    Titel :

    Ion Beam Plume and Efflux Characterization Flight Experiment Study


    Beteiligte:
    J. M. Sellen (Autor:in) / S. Zafran (Autor:in) / A. Cole (Autor:in) / G. Rosiak (Autor:in) / G. K. Komatsu (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1977


    Format / Umfang :

    166 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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