|The high power helicon is a
state of the art electrodeless plasma thruster. This mean that issues
associated with erosion of electrode by the plasma is eliminated. The
plasma itself is generated by high power radio frequency waves that
allow substantial felixbility in operational characteristics. it is
also very much small than other plasma thruster, which adds to to
|HPH is presently
undergoing rigorously testing for performanace optimization. The
testing to date shows excellent power and gas efficiency over two
orders of magnitude in power and gas flow rate.
under operation with argon.