Performance calculation and analysis of multi-STP

Gui Long Dai; Xin Lin Xia; Ming Yue Yu

doi:10.3873/j.issn.1000-1328.2010.06.020

Performance calculation and analysis of multi-STP

Gui Long Dai^*
, Xin Lin Xia
, Ming Yue Yu

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Solar thermal propulsion (STP) is a novel space propulsion system. The characteristics of direct STP, indirect STP and post-combustion STP are presented. Their propulsive performances are calculated by employing high temperature solar thermal convection theory respectively. Effects of solar concentrator radius and propellant kinds are discussed. The calculation results demonstrate that taking hydrogen as propellant. The direct STP with 4 m mirror radius provides thrust of 10 N at specific impulse of 800 s. The propulsive performance of post-combustion STP within the hydrogen excess coefficient ranges of 2-5 is appropriate.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1631-1636
Number of pages	6
Journal	Yuhang Xuebao/Journal of Astronautics
Volume	31
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3873/j.issn.1000-1328.2010.06.020
State	Published - Jun 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Propulsive performance
STP
Solar concentrator

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