Plasma Diagnostic and Performance of a Permanent Magnet Hall Thruster.pdfVIP

PLASMA DIAGNOSTIC AND PERFORMANCE OF A PERMANENT MAGNET HALL THRUSTER José Leonardo Ferreira, Jo?o Henrique Campos de Souza, Israel da Silveira Rêgo and Ivan Soares Ferreira Laboratório de Plasmas, Instituto de Física, Universidade de Brasília-UnB 70910-900 Brasilia-DF, Brazil Abstract Electric propulsion is now a successful method for primary propulsion of deep space long duration missions and for geosyncronous satellite attitude control. Closed Drift Plasma Thruster, so called Hall Thruster or SPT (stationary plasma thruster) was primarily conceived in USSR (the ancient Sovi