Commentary: On helicon thrusters: Will they ever fly?

• Kazunori Takahashi,
• Christine Charles,
• Rod W. Boswell,
• Yoshinori Takao,
• Amnon Fruchtman,
• Jaume Navarro-Cavallé,
• Mario Merino

Affiliations

Kazunori Takahashi

Department of Electrical Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Christine Charles

Space Plasma, Power and Propulsion Laboratory, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Rod W. Boswell

Space Plasma, Power and Propulsion Laboratory, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Yoshinori Takao

Division of Systems Research, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

Amnon Fruchtman

Faculty of Sciences, Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Holon, Israel

Jaume Navarro-Cavallé

Equipo de Propulsión Espacial y Plasmas (EP2), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain

Mario Merino

Equipo de Propulsión Espacial y Plasmas (EP2), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain