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Current Research Projects at MIT's Space Propulsion Laboratory

 

• Plasma-Materials Interactions (PMI) in Electric Propulsion (AFOSR)
• Scalable Electrospray Propulsion
• ion Electrospray Propulsion System for CubeSats (iEPS)
• Design and Fabrication of Electrospray Thruster Packaging and Fuel Tank
• Alternative Fabrication Techniques For and Emitter Densification of iEPs
• Computational Optimization of Emitter Density in a Planar Electrospray Array
• Ionic Liquid Ion Sources (ILIS) for Micro/Nano-Fabrication
• Molecular Dynamics for Propulsion
• Divergent Cusped Field Thrusters (DCFT)
• Particle in Cell (PIC), Kinetic and Fluidic Modeling of Plasmas
• Investigation of Space/Ionospheric Plasma Turbulence caused by Anomalous Large-Scale Thermal Fronts
• EMIC Waves Characterization and Radiation from an Ionospheric Tether
• Spacecraft Interaction with Space Plasmas
• Non-thermal Plasmas for Combustion Applications
• Modeling the Characteristics of Propulsion Systems Providing Less Than 10N Thrust