[b-14] Air-breathing Engine

[2023-b-49] Design development of an RF helicon-based plasma thruster for a VLEO platform

Konstantinos Papavramidis¹, *Jonathan Skalden¹, Georg Herdrich¹, Nabil Souhair², Francesco Romano³ (1. University of Stuttgart, Institute of Space Systems, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany, 2. University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy, 3. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland)

キーワード：Very-Low Earth Orbit, Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion, RF-Helicon Plasma Thruster