The Micro-Electric Propulsion test facility is a vacuum chamber with a length of 0.6 m and a diameter of 0.5 m. The facility is equipped with a turbomolecular pump that provides a pumping speed of 2,200 L/s.

Our main objective for the MEP chamber is to investigate various microscale electric propulsion devices, such as electrospray thrusters, hollow cathodes, and field-emission electric propulsion thrusters. Various plasma diagnostics, including a Faraday probe, a retarding potential analyzer, and a time-of-flight mass spectrometer, are currently under development.

A transparent acrylic electric propulsion test facility is used to test micro electric propulsion devices to maximize it visibility. The chamber is equipped with a single rotary vane pump and is also used as a dessicator, where we store air and moisture-sensitive devices and materials in the lab, such as ionic liquids and hollow cathodes.