Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Garry Popov, creator of electric propulsion engines for spacecraft, has died

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences Garry Alekseevich Popov has died.

Garry Popov was the creator of advanced electric propulsion engines for spacecraft.

MOSCOW, October 4 - RIA Novosti. Academician Garry Popov, the creator of advanced electric propulsion engines for spacecraft, died at the age of 92, Roscosmos reported.

“At the age of 92, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences Garry Alekseevich Popov died,” the state corporation said in a statement on the Max platform.

It is noted that Popov went from an assistant to a professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute, and in 1987 he headed the Research Institute of Applied Mechanics and Electrodynamics, created on his own initiative.

A key area of ​​work was electric rocket engines (ERM). Under Popov's leadership, a new generation of such installations was created. Plasma injectors based on pulsed plasma engines developed under his leadership successfully operated on the Mir orbital station and the International Space Station.