News and Highlights
May 2013:
Kickoff of CubeSat Ambipolar Thruster (CAT) on Kickstarter. Contribute to this exciting project to develop interplanetary propulsion systems!
April 2013:
Congratulations to Ray Liang for successfully defending his thesis: "The Combination of Two Concentric Discharge Channels into a Nested Hall-Effect Thruster."
April 2013:
Dr. Tom Liu completed his Post-Doc at PEPL and joined Prof. Walker at HPEPL.
March 2013:
Dr. Mike McDonald and Mike Sekerak presented at the IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, MT.
January 2013:
Congratulations to Adam Shabshelowitz for successfully defending his thesis: "Study of RF Plasma Technology Applied to Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion"
and joining MIT Lincoln Labs.
The PEPL Mission
The experimental and theoretical research program is guided by three goals:
- To make electric propulsion (EP) devices more efficient and of better performance
- To Understand spacecraft integration issues that could impede the widespread use of these devices on scientific, commercial, and military spacecraft
- To identify non-propulsion applications of EP systems (e.g., plasma processing, space-plasma simulation)
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