Members of the lab attended the 36th International Electric Propulsion Conference held in Vienna, Austria in order to present portions of the lab’s ongoing research into the development of microfabricated electrospray thrusters. The works range from the fundamental modeling of electrospray physics to the design and manufacturing of thrusters and associated systems for future missions. The individual papers can be found below:
- Development of an Electrospray Fragmentation Model for Kinetic Plume Modeling
- Informing the Design of Pure-ion Electrospray Thrusters via Simulation of the Leaky-Dielectric Model with Charge Evaporation
- Investigation of Electrospray Plume Composition during Voltage Transients
- Laboratory Demonstration of a Staging System for Electrospray Thrusters
- Microfluidic and Extractor Electrode Update in the ion-Electrospray Propulsion System
- Operation and Performance of a Fully-Integrated ionic-Electrospray Propulsion System