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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2012
Anthony Claude Bernard Lorand, Notre Dame de l'Isle, FR;
Anthony Claude Bernard Lorand, Notre Dame de l'Isle, FR;
SNECMA, Paris, FR;
Abstract
An electric propulsion system includes a first stationary plasma thruster including a single first cathode, a first anode, and a first gas manifold, and a second stationary plasma thruster including a single second cathode, a second anode, and a second gas manifold. The system further includes an electrical connection device common to the first and second cathodes, first and second gas flow rate control devices with a common fluid flow device for feeding gas, and a selective control device for activating at any given instant only one of the first and second cathodes in co-operation with one or the other of the first and second anodes.