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Guobiao Cai, Lihui Liu, Bijiao He, Guilong Ling, Huiyan Weng and Weizong Wang
Chemical and electrical thrusters are generally utilized to control the attitude and orbit of spacecraft in aerospace. When they are firing, the exhaust expands into the vacuum environment, known as the vacuum plume. The plume flow can collide with space...
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Kamesh Sankaran, Scott A. Griffith, Noah C. Thompson, Matthew D. Lochridge and Andrew S. O?Kins
A streamlined genetic algorithm was developed and implemented on a GPU to evaluate low-thrust trajectories of spacecraft propelled by an ion thruster. It was then applied to examine the utility of a specific thruster for an asteroid impact mission. This ...
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Kurt Polzin, Adam Martin, Justin Little, Curtis Promislow, Benjamin Jorns and Joshua Woods
An inductive pulsed plasma thruster (IPPT) operates by pulsing high current through an inductor, typically a coil of some type, producing an electromagnetic field that drives current in a plasma, accelerating it to high speed. The IPPT is electrodeless, ...
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Jack Claricoats and Sam M. Dakka
The paper presents the development of the power, propulsion, and thermal systems for a 3U CubeSat orbiting Earth at a radius of 600 km measuring the radiation imbalance using the RAVAN (Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned NanoTubes) payload de...
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