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Applied Physics Paper

Check out our recent article in the Journal of Applied Physics special issue on the “Physics of Electric Propulsion.”

2021 AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum

We had a number of papers at this year's AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum Zachariah A. Brown and Benjamin A. Jorns:  “Experimental measurements of the contribution of plasma turbulence to anomalous collision frequency in a Hall thruster” Alex A. Gorodetsky, Collin B....

AIAA Technical Note

We just put out a technical note about rotating instabilities in hollow cathode plumes. Check it out!

AIAA 2020 Best Paper Award

Congratulations to Prof. Benjamin Jorns, PEPL alumnus, Dr. Ethan Dale, and PEPL doctoral candidate, Thomas Marks, who received the 2020 Best Paper Award in Electric Propulsion from the AIAA for their paper, “A Predictive Hall Thruster Model Enabled by Data-Driven...

JPP Publication

We have another publication out about the X3 nested Hall thruster!

JPP Publication

Check out our new publication on the X3 Nested Hall thruster in the Journal of Propulsion and Power

Preliminary exams

Congratulations to Parker John Roberts for passing his preliminary examinations!

Collin B. Whittaker wins NSTGRO fellowship

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Collin B. Whittaker for receiving a 2021 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity Fellowship. Collin’s fellowship proposal is on the “Robust Optimization of Electrospray Thrusters through Reduced-Fidelity Modeling and Rapid...