Superconducting Materials Applied to EP Systems: Applications of Superconductivity to Hall Thrusters Propulsion

This report results from a contract tasking University of Rome as follows The contractor will investigate the use of superconducting materials for use in high power hall effect type electric propulsion motors. The focus of this work will be to derive scaling laws for coils using high temperature superconducting materials in a Hall SPT up to 50 kW electric power. The contractor will compare the results of this system to more traditional thrusters and discuss the performance gainslimitations. He will collect all data and findings and write a final report.