Atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion - Wikipedia
An ABEP is composed by an intake and an electric thruster: rarefied gases which are responsible for drag in low Earth orbit (LEO) and very low Earth orbit (VLEO), are used as the propellant. This technology would ideally allow S/Cs to orbit at very low altitudes (< 400 km around the Earth) without the need of on-board propellant, allowing longer time missions in a ne… 展开
OverviewAtmosphere-breathing electric propulsion, or air-breathing electric propulsion, shortly ABEP, is a propulsion … 展开
ESA - World-first firing of air-breathing …
2018年3月5日 · In a world-first, an ESA-led team has built and fired an electric thruster to ingest scarce air molecules from the top of the atmosphere for propellant, opening the way to …
Air-breathing electric propulsion: Flight envelope identification …
2022年2月1日 · Air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) enables long duration missions at very low orbital altitudes through the use of drag compensation. A system-level spacecraft model is …
A review of air-breathing electric propulsion: from …
2022年12月15日 · Air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) allows for lowering the altitude of spacecraft operations below 250 km, in the so-called Very Low Earth Orbits (VLEOs). Operations in VLEOs will give radical advantages in terms of …
A Comprehensive Review of …
2020年10月7日 · In 2016, Chen introduced an air-breathing electric propulsion technology for near-space vehicles. This technique uses the single dielectric barrier discharge (SDBD) …
Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Paves Way …
2018年3月23日 · For the first time, the European Space Agency (ESA) has tested a novel air-breathing electric thruster that could allow near-Earth orbiting satellites to stay in space almost …
Simulation-guided engineering of an air-breathing electric …
2022年5月4日 · This contribution presents a multi-scale simulation study of an electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR) air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) concept for very low Earth orbit …
AEP (Air-breathing Electric Propulsion)
2018年3月7日 · Figure 1: Air-breathing ion thruster: An ESA-led team has built and fired an electric thruster to ingest scarce air molecules from the top of the atmosphere as propellant, …
Self-neutralizing air-breathing thruster and method of …
2022年8月29日 · Researchers at George Washington University have developed an air-breathing plasma thruster, which ionizes and neutralizes the air particles at the same instant. The …
Performance and plasma diagnostics of the …
2023年11月16日 · The air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) concept refers to a spacecraft in very-low Earth orbit (VLEO), which collects rarefied upper-atmospheric air as a propellant …
