NASA HERMeS Hall Thruster Electrical Configuration Characterization
NASA HERMeS Hall Thruster Electrical Configuration Characterization
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NASA HERMeS 霍尔推进器电气配置表征
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10.2514/6.2016-5027
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2016
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R. Hofer
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作者：
P. Peterson;H. Kamhawi;Wensheng Huang;J. Yim;D. Herman;G. Williams;J. Gilland;R. Hofer
NASA的带磁屏蔽的霍尔效应火箭（爱马仕）12.5千瓦技术演示单元-1（TDU-1）霍尔推进器已经成为广泛技术成熟的主题，为发展成为飞行准备推进系统做准备。技术成熟的一部分是在几种地面电气配置中测试TDU-1推进器，以评估推进器的鲁棒性和成功太空操作的适用性。地面电气配置测试最近已被证明是理解和评估霍尔推进器与地面测试相比如何在太空中不同地运行的重要一步，并确定进行开发和鉴定测试的最佳配置。本文介绍了爱马仕TDU-1霍尔推力器在美国宇航局格伦研究中心的真空设施5的电气配置测试。检查的三种电气配置是：1）与设施接地的推进器主体，2）推进器浮动，3）与阴极公共端电连接的推进器主体。爱马仕TDU-1霍尔推进器还配置了两种不同的出口平面边界条件，介电和导电，以检查对电气配置特性的影响。
The NASA Hall Effect Rocket with Magnetic Shielding (HERMeS) 12.5 kW Technology Demonstration Unit-1 (TDU-1) Hall thruster has been the subject of extensive technology maturation in preparation for development into a flight ready propulsion system. Part of the technology maturation was to test the TDU-1 thruster in several ground based electrical configurations to assess the thruster robustness and suitability to successful in-space operation. The ground based electrical configuration testing has recently been demonstrated as an important step in understanding and assessing how a Hall thruster may operate differently in-space compared to ground based testing, and to determine the best configuration to conduct development and qualification testing. This paper describes the electrical configuration testing of the HERMeS TDU-1 Hall thruster in NASA Glenn Research Center's Vacuum Facility 5. The three electrical configurations examined were 1) thruster body tied to facility ground, 2) thruster floating, and 3) thruster body electrically tied to cathode common. The HERMeS TDU-1 Hall thruster was also configured with two different exit plane boundary conditions, dielectric and conducting, to examine the influence on the electrical configuration characterization.