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Franz Georg Hey summarises the development and testing of a micro-Newton thrust balance, as well as the downscaling of a High Efficiency Multistage Plasma Thruster to micro-Newton thrust levels. The balance is tailored to fully characterise thruster candidates for the space based gravitational wave detector LISA. Thus, thrust noise measurements in sub-micro-Newton regime can be performed in the overall LISA bandwidth. The downscaled thruster can be operated down to serval tens of micro-Newton with a comparably high specific impulse.
About the Author

Franz Georg Hey works as mechanical, thermal, propulsion architect and technical lead of the micröNewton propulsion laboratory of Europe s leading air and spacecraft manufacturer. The author is participating on major programmes for future satellite and electric propulsion development. The author s research is performed in close collaboration with the Dresden University of Technology, the University of Bremen and the DLR Bremen.