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A power supply apparatus for controlling a Hall thruster which is an ion accelerator includes an anode power supply for applying anode voltage Va to an anode of the Hall thruster, inner and outer coil power supplies for supplying coil current Ic to each of inner and outer magnetic field generating coils of the Hall thruster, a gas flow rate controller for regulating gas flow rate Q via a gas flow rate regulator, and a control unit. The control unit adjusts the magnitude of ion acceleration by the Hall thruster by controlling the anode voltage Va, the gas flow rate Q and the coil current Ic according to a quantity expressed by a function related to the anode voltage Va and the coil current Ic.
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