magnetic sail, solar wind, plasma jet, simulator, magnetic sail simulator, solar wind simulator, hybrid simulation, magneto-plasma-dynamic arcjet, MPD arcjet, electron temperature, magnetopause, stagnation point
その他のタイトル（英）
Laboratory experiment of magnetic sails using an MPD arcjet
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
University of Tsukuba
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
出版者
宇宙航空研究開発機構
出版者（英）
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
雑誌名
宇宙航空研究開発機構特別資料: 2005年度宇宙関連プラズマ研究会講演集
雑誌名(英)
JAXA Special Publication: Proceedings of Space Plasma Symposium 2005
A magnetic sail (MagSail) is a unique interplanetary propulsion system. To propel a spacecraft in the direction leaving the Sun, the MagSail produces a large-scale magnetic field to block the hypersonic solar wind plasma flow. In order to simulate the interaction between the solar wind and the artificially deployed magnetic field produced around a MagSail spacecraft, a laboratory simulator was designed and constructed inside the space science chamber at ISAS/JAXA. As a solar wind simulator, a high-power magnetoplasmadynamic arcjet is operated in a quasi-steady mode of approximately 0.8 ms duration. It can generate a simulated solar wind that is a high-speed (above 20 km/s), high-density (10(exp 18) /cu m) hydrogen plasma plume of approximately 20 cm in diameter. A small coil (2 cm in diameter), which is to simulate a MagSail spacecraft and can obtain 1.9 T magnetic field strength at its center, was immersed inside the simulated solar wind. Using these devices, the formation of a magnetic cavity (approximately 8 cm in radius) was observed around the coil.
MPDアークジェットを用いた磁気セイルの実験室シミュレーション
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