On the Road to Creating An Electrodeless Spacecraft Propulsion Engine (IMAGE)

Tohoku University

On the Road to Creating An Electrodeless Spacecraft Propulsion Engine

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Fig 1: Physical picture of the applied magnetic field lines (blue lines) and the magnetic field lines (red lines) modified by the plasma flow, i.e., sum of the applied and plasma-induced magnetic fields. The plasma decreases the axial field component at the upstream side of the magnetic nozzle and increases it at the downstream side of the nozzle as described by the insets, where the transition between these two states are identified as shown by the upper left inset.

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Kazunori Takahashi

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