STG-CT: High-vacuum plume test facility for chemical thrusters
The STG-CT, operated by the DLR Institute for Aerodynamics and Flow Technology in Göttingen, is a vacuum facility specically designed to provide and maintain a space-like vacuum environment for researching plume flow and plume impingement from satellite reaction control thrusters. Its unique liquid-...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Forschungszentrum Jülich
2016-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of large-scale research facilities JLSRF |
| Online Access: | https://jlsrf.org/index.php/lsf/article/view/139 |
| Summary: | The STG-CT, operated by the DLR Institute for Aerodynamics and Flow Technology in Göttingen, is a vacuum facility specically designed to provide and maintain a space-like vacuum environment for researching plume flow and plume impingement from satellite reaction control thrusters. Its unique liquid-helium driven cryopump of 30m2 allows maintaining a background pressure <10^-5 mbar even when molecular hydrogen is a plume constituent. |
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| ISSN: | 2364-091X |