Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2020YFC2201001);the Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research(Grant No.2019B030302001);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12105373,12105374,and 11927812);the Science and Technology Research Project of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education(Grant No.GJJ2402105).
Accurate thrust assessment is crucial for characterizing the performance of micro-thrusters.This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the thrust generated by a needle-type indium field emission electric propul...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61571166,11775063 and 51736003)。
Hollow cathode discharges are widely used as neutralizers for the electric propulsion systems and recently developed into micro-thrusters for the small satellites.In this work,a dualemitter hollow cathode thruster is ...
Digital micro-thruster arrays can be used for special missions of micro/nano-satellites with the requirements of high precision and small impulse.This paper presents a novel control allocation algorithm for the digita...
support provided by the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51121004,41274041,51207033,and 11275055)
In this paper, the technological progress on Chinese gravity exploration satellites is presented. Novel features such as ultra-stable structure, high accurate thermal control, drag-free and attitude control, micro-thr...
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.91216201, No.51205403)
The applications of the micro-thrust e r and the challenges of micro-thrust measuring are introduced.The developments in measuring techniques for the micro-thrust are reviewed.Micro-thrust measu rements have previousl...
The three-dimensional numerical simulation of two-phase plume flow of solid propellant micro-thrusters was developed.Then it was used to investigate the plume interference effect by combining the direct simulation Mon...
Pulsed plasma thrusters (PPT) are micro-propulsion devices used in satellites for station keeping. Conventionally the plasma discharge in a PPT is initiated by a spark plug. The primary objective of the present work...