1. Experimental characterization of thrust production mechanisms in a magnetic nozzle ECR thruster

   • Federico Boni
   • Victor Désangles
   • Julien Jarrige

   Research Open access 23 December 2022 Article: 33

   

2. High angle mass flux of an electrospray plume

   • Adam L. Collins
   • Peter L. Wright
   • Richard E. Wirz

   Research Open access 19 December 2022 Article: 32

   

3. A review of air-breathing electric propulsion: from mission studies to technology verification

   • Tommaso Andreussi
   • Eugenio Ferrato
   • Vittorio Giannetti

   Review Open access 15 December 2022 Article: 31

   

4. Large number system integration aspects: on orbit data and lessons learnt from launching 144 FEEP propulsion systems

   • David Krejci
   • Alexander Reissner

   Research Open access 13 December 2022 Article: 30

   

5. Control algorithm for a 6 kW hall thruster

   • Yoshiki Matsunaga
   • Hiroki Watanabe
   • Toru Takahashi

   Research Open access 06 December 2022 Article: 29

   

6. Development and test of a cost-efficient gridded ion thruster propulsion system for small satellites – IonJet

   • Frank Scholze
   • Fred Pietag
   • Daniel Spemann

   Research Open access 01 December 2022 Article: 28

   

7. Molecular dynamics studies of ionic liquid-surface interactions for electrospray thrusters

   • Rafid Bendimerad
   • Elaine Petro

   Research Open access 25 November 2022 Article: 27

   

8. Enabling direct kinetic simulation of dense plasma plume expansion for laser ablation plasma thrusters

   • Wai Hong Ronald Chan
   • Iain D. Boyd

   Research Open access 21 November 2022 Article: 26

   

9. Air ionization in self-neutralizing air-breathing plasma thruster

   • Anmol Taploo
   • Li Lin
   • Michael Keidar

   Research Open access 17 November 2022 Article: 25

   

10. Thrust measurements and mesothermal plasma plume of the Alternative Low Power Hybrid Ion Engine (alphie)

    • L. Conde
    • J. Gonzalez
    • M. A. Castillo

    Research Open access 14 November 2022 Article: 24

    

11. Development and testing of a low-current applied-field magnetoplasmadynamic thruster with a rectangular discharge channel

    • Norman Gondol
    • Martin Tajmar

    Research Open access 11 November 2022 Article: 23

    

12. A two-stage μCAT-MPD thruster: toward millinewton thrust

    • D. B. Zolotukhin
    • A. V. Tyunkov
    • M. Keidar

    Research Open access 09 November 2022 Article: 22

    

13. Concept and design of a hall-effect thruster with integrated thrust vector control

    • Willy Stark
    • Norman Gondol
    • Martin Tajmar

    Research Open access 04 November 2022 Article: 21

    

14. The role of ion magnetization on plasma generation in a magnetic nozzle rf device

    • Félicien Filleul
    • Antonella Caldarelli
    • John Cater

    Research Open access 04 November 2022 Article: 20

    

15. Resolving multi-dimensional plasma phenomena in Hall thrusters using the reduced-order particle-in-cell scheme

    • Maryam Reza
    • Farbod Faraji
    • Aaron Knoll

    Research Open access 14 October 2022 Article: 19

    

16. Electrical characteristics of a Hall effect thruster body in a vacuum facility testing environment

    • Jonathan Walker
    • Dan Lev
    • David King

    Research Open access 10 October 2022 Article: 18

    

17. Comparison of computational algorithms for simulating an electrospray plume with a n-body approach

    • Sebastian K. Hampl
    • Marshall T. Waggoner
    • Paulo C. Lozano

    Research Open access 07 October 2022 Article: 17

    

18. Experimental investigation of an external discharge very low anode power (< 20 W) hall thruster

    • Omri Hamo
    • Dan R. Lev
    • Joseph Lefkowitz

    Research Open access 03 October 2022 Article: 16

    

19. Obituary: Alexander (Sasha) Kapulkin

    • Maxim Rubanovych
    • Vladimir Balabanov
    • Sergey Khartov

    Obituary Open access 03 October 2022 Article: 15

    

20. Corrosion of metal parts on satellites by iodine exposure in space

    • Daniel Zschätzsch
    • Sebastian L. Benz
    • Peter J. Klar

    Research Open access 28 September 2022 Article: 14

    

21. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ion Extraction from Nanodroplets for Ionic Liquid Electrospray Thrusters

    • Takaaki Enomoto
    • Shehan M. Parmar
    • Yoshinori Takao

    Research Open access 26 September 2022 Article: 13

    

22. Air-breathing electric propulsion: mission characterization and design analysis

    • Patrick Crandall
    • Richard E. Wirz

    Research Open access 26 September 2022 Article: 12

    

23. 0-D composition and performance analysis of an air-breathing radiofrequency ion thruster

    • Julian Lopez-Uricoechea
    • Dan Lev
    • Mitchell L. R. Walker

    Research Open access 26 September 2022 Article: 11

    

24. Radial characterization of an ion beam in a deflected magnetic nozzle

    • Antonella Caldarelli
    • Félicien Filleul
    • John Cater

    Research Open access 14 September 2022 Article: 10

    

25. Perspectives on the success of electric propulsion

    • John R. Brophy

    Review Open access 09 September 2022 Article: 9

    

26. A radio-frequency generator for ion thrusters based on a Class-E power circuit

    • Edwin Beller
    • Christian Roessler
    • Chris Volkmar

    Research Open access 01 September 2022 Article: 8

    

27. Time evolution of plasma parameters in the jet of a low-power vacuum arc thruster

    • Etienne Michaux
    • Stéphane Mazouffre
    • Antoine Blanchet

    Research Open access 14 June 2022 Article: 7

    

28. Evidence of the ionization instability and ion acoustic turbulence correlation in sub-ampere hollow cathodes

    • George-Cristian Potrivitu
    • Shuyan Xu

    Research Open access 26 April 2022 Article: 6

    

29. Lifetime and Mission reliability assessment of multi-mode ion thruster

    • Xueer Zhang
    • Tianping Zhang
    • Detian Li

    Research Open access 12 April 2022 Article: 5

    

30. Electron thermodynamics along magnetic nozzle lines in a helicon plasma

    • Alfio E. Vinci
    • Quentin Delavière–Delion
    • Stéphane Mazouffre

    Research Open access 04 April 2022 Article: 4

    

31. An electric propulsion memoir

    • Peter J. Turchi

    Review Open access 31 March 2022 Article: 3

    

32. Importance of stepwise ionization from the metastable state in electron cyclotron resonance ion thrusters

    • Yusuke Yamashita
    • Ryudo Tsukizaki
    • Kazutaka Nishiyama

    Research Open access 17 March 2022 Article: 2

    

33. A new interdisciplinary forum for the growing field of plasma-based space propulsion

    • Michael Keidar

    Editorial Open access 26 October 2021 Article: 1