Output details
13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Southampton
Article title
A dual Stage ion engine for high impulse missions
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Article number
-
Volume number
40
Issue number
2
First page of article
1053
ISSN of journal
0093-3813
Year of publication
2012
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
Significance of output:
This paper presents for the first time, lifetime predictions and the operating regime under which a new type of ion engine using 3 rather than 2 grids offers advantages. Such a thruster can provide significant increases in thrust density and specific impulse enabling such advanced future missions as building infrastructures at the L1 point of the Earth Moon system, exploration of outer planets of the solar system, and the building of infrastructures on Mars. The research, funded by an FP7 grant is strongly supported by ESA, who have included it in their roadmap for future high power electric propulsion thrusters.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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