Research grant
• Novel anode design for realization of Hall thruster operation with argon propellant.
Grant Number: 24KJ0766
Granted by Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS), April 2024 - March 2026
Journal papers
Dibyesh Satpathy, Hokuto Sekine, Nadine Barth Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi
Transactions of Japan Society of Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 2025
Dibyesh Satpathy, Hokuto Sekine, Jiwon Lee, Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi
Journal of Applied Physics, American Institute of Physics Publishing 2024.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Shu Kawabata, Hokuto Sekine, Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi
Journal of Electric Propulsion, Springer Nature, 2023.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Shalika Singh, Subham Mahanty, Sidhant Patra, Isham Panigrahi
Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer Nature, 2022.
International conference articles
Enhancement of neutral particle density by propellant reversal through a sawtooth hollow anode.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Hokuto Sekine, Jiwon Lee, Nadine Barth, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi
International Electric Propulsion Conference, September 2025 (Accepted, to be presented)
Difference in plasma potential profiles between xenon and argon propellants in RAIJIN-66.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Hokuto Sekine, Jiwon Lee, Nadine Barth, Kimiya Komurasaki, Rei Kawashima
Hiroyuki Koizumi
International Electric Propulsion Conference, September 2025 (Accepted, to be presented)
Magnetohydrodynamic Analysis of High-Density Plasma Hall Thruster Operation.
Nadine Barth, Dibyesh Satpathy, Jiwon Lee, Hokuto Sekine, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Kimiya Komurasaki
International Electric Propulsion Conference, September 2025 (Accepted, to be presented)
Neutral Gas Flow Dynamics in a Hall thruster Dominated by Wall Reflections.
Jiwon Lee, Dibyesh Satpathy, Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hokuto Sekine, Nadine Barth, Hiroyuki Koizumi
International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, July 2025 (To be presented).
An argon Hall thruster using a hollow anode with corrugated surface.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Hokuto Sekine, Jiwon Lee, Nadine Barth, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi
International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, July 2025 (To be presented).
Magnetohydrodynamic Analysis of High Mass Flow Rate-Induced High-Density Plasma Hall Thruster Operation.
Nadine Barth, Tamon Suehiro, Dibyesh Satpathy, Jiwon Lee, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hokuto Sekine, Hiroyuki Koizumi
Asian Joint Propulsion Conference, March 2025.
Approaches to Hall thruster design specific to alternative propellants.
Kimiya Komurasaki, Dibyesh Satpathy
Asian Joint Propulsion Conference, March 2025.
Chiho Saka, Akira Furuya, Kota Ishizaki, Rei Kawashima, Dibyesh Satpathy, Kimiya Komurasaki
International Electric Propulsion Conference, June 2024.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Hokuto Sekine, Jiwon Lee, Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi
International Electric Propulsion Conference, June 2024.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Hokuto Sekine, Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi
International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, June 2023.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Shu Kawabata, Hokuto Sekine, Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi
International Electric Propulsion Conference, July 2022.
Tomoya Yamase, Hirotaka Horita, Dibyesh Satpathy, Daisuke Kuwahara, Shunjiro Shinohara
American Physical Society Meeting, October 2017.
Domestic conference articles
Analysis of Neutral Particle Flow Variation in the Anode and Channel According to Injection Methods.
Jiwon Lee, Dibyesh Satpathy, Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hokuto Sekine, Nadine Barth, Hiroyuki Koizumi
宇宙輸送シンポジウム, January 2025
Rarefied gas dynamics of a propellant flow spiraling in a channel.
Jiwon Lee, Dibyesh Satpathy, Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hokuto Sekine, Hiroyuki Koizumi
日本航空宇宙学会年会講演会, April 2024
Impact of active anode cooling on argon Hall thruster performance.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Jiwon Lee, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hokuto Sekine, Hiroyuki Koizumi
航空原動機宇宙推進講演会, March 2024
Ionization length estimation of RAIJIN66 determined from performance measurements during its thermal transient operation.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Hokuto Sekine, Jiwon Lee, Kimiya Komurasaki, Rei Kawashima, Hiroyuki Koizumi
宇宙輸送シンポジウム, January 2024
Use of Argon propellant in a Hall thruster for mass transportation.
Jiwon Lee, Dibyesh Satpathy, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hokuto Sekine, Hiroyuki Koizumi
宇宙太陽発電, December 2023
Dependence of propellant utilization efficiency on anode temperature in anode layer Hall thruster RAIJIN 66.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Hokuto Sekine, Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi
宇宙科学技術連合講演会原稿見本 , November 2022
Thrust fluctuations at the initial stage of ignition measured with a double pendulum thrust stand for high-power propulsion machines.
Shu Kawabata, Dibyesh Satpathy, Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi
航空原動機宇宙推進講演会, March 2022
Design of temperature unifrom plates in dual pendulum thrust stand.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Shu Kawabata, Hokuto Sekine, Rei Kawashima, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi
宇宙輸送シンポジウム, January 2022
A Pulsed Plasma Thruster Performance Assessment Tool.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Shalika Singh
National Aerospace Propulsion Conference, December 2020
Design and analysis of KIIT Nanosatellite's Micro-Pulsed Plasma Thruster.
Dibyesh Satpathy, Shalika Singh, Subham Mahanty, Sidhant Patra, Isham Panigrahi
National Aerospace Propulsion Conference, December 2020
Structural Design and Analysis of KIIT Nanosatellite.
Sidhant Patra, Dibyesh Satpathy Isham Panigrahi
Conference for Mechanical, Aerospace & Production Engineering, November 2020
RF Plasma Generation under Low Pressure with Very Small Diameter.
Tomoya Yamase, Hirotaka Horita, Dibyesh Satpathy, Daisuke Kuwahara, Shunjiro Shinohara
Plasma Conference 2017, November 2017