CUAVA PhD student Lachlan Goulden’s research has been featured in two prominent science research publications.
CUAVA congratulates Lachlan and his co-authors, whose research paper ‘Measurements of the force produced by a negatively charged electric sail in a pulsed cathodic arc plasma’ has been featured in two prominent science publications, Scilight and Physics of Plasmas.
Electric sails are designed to harness the movement of flowing plasma such as solar wind for spacecraft acceleration and propulsion, and while the concept is not new, measurements of the forces generated have been scarce.
Co-authored by Iver Cairns, Joe Khachan, Jionguy Liang, Kosta Tsoutas and Marcela Bilek, the paper presents experimental validation of the propulsive force generated by a negatively-biased electric sail.
