Current Status of Development and Application of Main Types of Electric Propulsion

The modern application of electric propulsion is analyzed. It is concluded that Hall and ion thrusters, which are based on the generation of low-temperature plasma, are most widely used worldwide. The analysis of the main scientific and technical problems facing the development and improvement of th...

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Published inPlasma physics reports Vol. 48; no. 9; pp. 933 - 960
Main Authors Lovtsov, A. S., Kravchenko, D. A., Tomilin, D. A., Shagaida, A. A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.09.2022
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Atomic
Electric propulsion
Ion and Plasma Sources
Ion thrusters
Low temperature
Molecular
Optical and Plasma Physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
electric propulsion
magnetic plasma confinement
plasma simulation
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Summary:The modern application of electric propulsion is analyzed. It is concluded that Hall and ion thrusters, which are based on the generation of low-temperature plasma, are most widely used worldwide. The analysis of the main scientific and technical problems facing the development and improvement of thrusters of these types are analyzed and the methods by which practical problems are currently being solved in the absence of detailed and comprehensive physical and mathematical models, are described.
ISSN:1063-780X
1562-6938
DOI:10.1134/S1063780X22600499