Electromagnetic Steering of Sodium-Seeded Rocket Thrust Plumes: Design & Analysis
This paper explores the use of the Lorentz force to magnetically steer a rocket engine’s thrust plume, creating an off-axis thrust component. The perpendicular force component thus generated, for the sample design used is estimated at 0.002% without sodium seeding, and 3.5% with said seeding. The de...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150153 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7700-9570 |