The Electric Thruster Environmental Effects Verification (ETEEV) experiment aims to test a low-power Hall thruster in space as part of the NASA Hitchhiker program. The experiment payload includes a suite of plasma instruments mounted on a pallet in the shuttle bay, as well as a mechanical diagnostics boom (MDB) that will take plume measurements. The goal of this project is to design, analyze, and construct an engineering prototype of the MDB (EP-MDB) based on ETEEV science and safety requirements as set forth by NASA's Hitchhiker program. Through an iterative design process of team input-design-analysis, a one-degree of freedom, 180-degrees roating design was chosen and modeled in Pro/Engineer.

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Creator

• Caron, Lee Walter
• Laperriere, David Daniel

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 02A001M

Advisor

• Demetriou, Michael A.
• Gatsonis, Nikolaos A.

Year

• 2002

Sponsor

• NASA Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium

Date created

• 2002-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright