Applied Plasma Science
Online ISSN : 2435-1555
Print ISSN : 1340-3214
Research Paper
Discharge-Pulse Control of Short-Pulse Laser-Assisted Pulsed Plasma Thruster
Kaede YANOHiroaki KAMEZAKIHaruhito KATOHideyuki HORISAWA
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2021 Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 59-64

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Development and characterization of a pulse generator which enables active control of a laser-assisted pulsed plasma thruster were conducted. In addition, thrust performance of the thruster was measured. As results of operational tests of the pulse generator, it was confirmed that timings of a laser pulse and a discharge pulse were actively controlled with an arbitrary delays. Moreover, typical values of a peak discharge voltage and a period were 15 kV and 160 ns, respectively. In addition, it was shown that the measured impulse bits were proportional to charge energies to capacitors.

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