METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC SUPPLY OF ELECTRIC PLASMA- JET ROCKER ENGINE Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: rocketry. SUBSTANCE: according to proposed method, electric supply of electric plasma-jet rocket engine is provided by changing consumption of working medium so that value of consumed power at each moment should be maximum. For this purpose power pickup, extreme regulator, threshold device, second reference voltage source and switching element are introduced additionally into known engine thrust stabilizer. These devices make it possible to stabilize voltage and anode current at maximum tolerable levels when maximum tolerable input power of engine is less than power of primary electric supply source, or maintain consumed power maximum for said power of primary source if power of the latter is less than maximum tolerable input power of engine. EFFECT: increased efficiency of use of power of primary electric supply source. 3 cl, 3 dwg