News and Highlights
March 2012: Mike Sekerak successfully advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.
December 2011: Mike McDonald successfully defended his thesis: Electron Transport in Hall Thrusters.
October 2011: Personnel updates and new publications from: 32nd International Electric Propulsion Conference, Wiesbaden, Germany, September 11-15, 2011 and
47th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, San Diego, CA, July 31 - August 3, 2011.
July 2010: Redesigned PEPL web site launched.
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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