A Comprehensive Review of Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion Systems

Table 2

Performance of electric propulsion systems [26] p.76.

Electric propulsion		Propellant	Power (kW)	Specific impulse (s)	Efficiency (%)	Thrust (mN)
Electrothermal	Resistojet [30]	N2H4, NH3	0.5~1.5	300	80	100~500
	Arcjet [13]	N2H4, NH3	0.3~100	500~2k	35	200~7000
Electrostatic	FEEP [17, 18]	In, Cs	0.01~0.15	8k~12k	30-90	0.001~1
	Ion [20]	Xe	0.5~2.5	3k	60-80	100~200
	Hall [21]	Xe, Kr, Ar	1.5~5	1.5k~2k	50	80~200
Electromagnetic	PPT [22]	PTFE, Ar	0.001~0.2	1k	5	1~100
	MPD [23]	NH3, H, Li	1~4000	2k~5k	25	1~200N
	IPG [25]	N2, O2	0.5~3.5	—	46	—