Kate Gleason College of Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
Philip Linden, MEng Student, Mechanical Engineering - Design Engineer
James Gandek, BS Student, Mechanical Engineering - Project Manager
Anthony Higgins, BS Student, Elecrical Engineering - Design Engineer
Dylan Bruce, BS Student, Mechanical Engineering - Build Engineer
Matt Giuffre, BS Student, Mechanical Engineering - Test Engineer
Vince Burolla, Mentor
A tabletop prototype of an arcjet electrothermal propulsion system was developed to supplement ongoing exploratory spacecraft development conducted by RIT Space Exploration (SPEX). The arcjet thruster demonstrates the degree of practicality in implementing electrothermal propulsion systems. The arcjet assembly generates an electrical arc across the thruster nozzle's throat, ionizing argon propellant in order to achieve a greater specific impulse compared to cold gas propulsion.
This repository controls the all revisions to the Technical Paper that describes the theory, design, and results of this project. All official documentation is controlled by the team's EDGE page, here: http://edge.rit.edu/edge/P17101/public/Home
The contents of this repository are subject to the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.
Thanks to RIT Space Exploration (SPEX) and its advisers for their support and to Boeing for sponsoring this aerospace prototype.