The project involves the design, analysis and fabrication of a setup for electric propulsion plume experiments and its integration onto WPI's large vacuum tank. The setup includes a fixed-stand to hold a plasma source and a probe-stand to hold a retarding potential analyzer. The probe-stand allows alignment of the probe with the plasma-source centerline and is placed on a manual translation table to allow measurements at various plume positions. The stands are designed to withstand forces and tank vibrations.

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Creator

• Cullan, Ryan M.
• Jurek, Renee J.
• Lucas, Jonathan
• Webber, Michael R.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 07D022M

Advisor

• Gatsonis, Nikolaos A.

Year

• 2007

Date created

• 2007-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Aerospace Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright