session 5

Title: Electric Propulsion (1)
type: oral
Description: The sessions Electric Propulsion (1) and Electric Propulsion (2) are dedicated to all aspects of Electric Propulsion, including full systems, sub-systems and specific components. The sessions welcome manuscripts on all research and development areas: design, testing (including diagnostics and test facilities), analysis and calculations, modelling, applications, science and fundamentals.
Date: 2026-10-06
Time: 15:00
Room: E6

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mr. Giorgio Saccoccia, Vast, France;
Co-Chair: Dr. Marco Di Clemente, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy;
Rapporteur: Ms. Merve Balaban, Berlin Space Consortium GmbH, Germany;
Rapporteur: Mr. Vincent Guyon, SAFRAN, France;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	Performance Evaluation of Magnetically Shielded and Unshielded Hall Thrusters Using Propellant Mixtures at Low Power Levels	10	confirmed	Mr. Yusuf Capuk	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
2	15:10	Breaking barriers with the high-Isp PPS®X000-HI Thruster	10	confirmed	Mr. Claude-Martin Brito	SAFRAN	France
3	15:20	Development and Characterisation of a Modular Heaterless Hollow Cathode for Hall Thrusters	10	confirmed	Mr. Claude-Martin Brito	SAFRAN	France
4	15:30	design and testing of hale-hc25 lab6 hollow cathode for hall effect thrusters at tubitak uzay	10	confirmed	Ms. Duygu Çetin	TUBITAK Uzay, Space Technologies Research Institute	Türkiye
5	15:40	Numerical Study of Neutralization and Charge-Exchange in a 5-kW Hall Thruster Plume During Ground Testing	10	confirmed	Mr. Egor Pliashkov	Optic Solutions Systems LLC	United Arab Emirates
6	15:50	data-driven engineering framework for hollow cathode erosion and operating mode characterization in stationary plasma thrusters using hall2de hybrid fluid/pic simulations and thermo-vacuum testing under variable keeper-orifice geometries an	10	confirmed	Mr. ALEXIS SALAZAR AQUINO	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Mexico
7	16:00	Interaction between the plume of a Gridded Ion Thruster and spacecraft surfaces	10	confirmed	Dr. Federico Cescon	University of Padua	Italy
8	16:10	Development of a dry Neutralizer System for Electric Micro-Propulsion Systems	10	confirmed	Dr. Bernhard Seifert	FOTEC Forschungs- und Technologietransfer GmbH	Austria
9	16:20	Proton irradiation effects on FEEP thruster emitters: performance and surface morphology assessment	10	confirmed	Dr. Laura Bettiol	FOTEC Forschungs- und Technologietransfer GmbH	Austria
10	16:30	Advancing Space Propulsion: An Experimental and Numerical Study of Ionic Liquid Emitters for Electrospray	10	confirmed	Mr. Gyandeep Gyandeep	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras	India
11	16:40	Characterization of novel “pixel” electrospray thruster	10	confirmed	Mrs. Catherine Nachtigal	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
12	16:50	Development and Characterization of a 500W High-Voltage Argon-Fed Hall Thruster	10	confirmed	Mr. Bhavya Mahajan	Universität der Bundeswehr München	Germany
13	17:00	Physics-Informed Interpolation, Extrapolation, and Velocity Inference in Electric Propulsion Plumes from Density-Only Measurements	10	confirmed	Mr. Nadim Maraqten	University of Stuttgart	Germany
14	17:10	Design and biasing implications for the beam target of a passively fed, externally wetted electrospray thruster operating in bipolar mode	10	confirmed	Mr. Robin Josef Paul Scholtes	IENAI SPACE	Spain

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