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Ryan Patrick Gott1
Kunning Gabriel Xu1
Date of Patent
September 3, 2024
1Patent Application Number
161532971
Date Filed
October 5, 2018
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The present disclosure generally pertains to devices and methods for generating thrust in vehicles, for instance in space applications. A heaterless, insertless hollow cathode utilizes AC and pulsed DC electric fields to ionize the propellant gas and generate a plasma plume. The cathode uses an argon microplasma generated in a quartz tube with a tungsten filament and brass ion collector. Free electrons are then drawn from the plasma plume and supplied to a thruster engine.
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