Numerical study of spacecraft contamination and interactions by ion-thruster effluents

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 535-542

  Samanta Roy, R I ^a,c,d,e   Hastings, D E ^a,c,e   Gatsonis, N A ^b,e,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Dept of Aero and Astronautics ^*

^d INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES   (United States)

^e AIAA ^*

^f MS 11 B

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; CURRENT DENSITY; EFFLUENTS; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; ELECTRONS; ION BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLYBDENUM; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASMAS; PROPELLANTS;

BACKFLOW CONTAMINATION; BACKFLOW CURRENTS; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; ION THRUSTER EFFLUENTS; MOLYBDENUM GRID METAL EFFLUENTS; SPACECRAFT CONTAMINATION; XENON ION THRUSTER;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 0030197230     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.26796     Document Type: Article

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