Design and Stress Analysis of Extraterrestrial ... - The Black Vault

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The electric power. ystem consists of the current supply 15,
condensers 16, disdharger-mod•lafor 17, and the ignition device 18.
To the terminals of the anode and cathode and to the dischargermodultor
vo1tage is fed. Then the reducing valve 8 of the controllrg
gas cylinder 7 is opened'; theworking gas from container 9 through
the dosins device 10 moves to the discharge gap of the generator.
* The a is rc ignited, by device 18. The purpose of the discharge-..
mcdulator 17 is to ensure a certain cyclic discharge of the capacitor;
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thus, the operating mode of the motor and its thrust is controlled
within a wifde range.
Ionization of gas in the discharge gap, with the aid of devices
* 17 and 18', leads toithe discharge of the capacitor of the plasma
generator over the entire gap' between the anode and the cathode and
displacement of *the. plasmoid along the generator channel; during the
, * pla'smoid.'s displacement it is pinched,: i.e., formed into a torus ciý
ring, and the ejection from the nozzle portioh of the anode into the
* accelerating system of the motor occurs. In the accelerating system
there is a synchronous discharge of the accelerator capacitor, which
leads to the defgrmation of a magnetic field in the accelerator,
!acceleration, and ejectidn of plasma into space.
Then overcharging of the capaciltor' leads to a repetition of
this' process.
L.*jxial plaima dc motor
This motor consists (Fig. 5.2) of a plasma generator unit,
accelerator unit, and 6ystems for feeding the working medium, cooling,
.0 and electriq power supply:
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