Propellant losses because of participate emission in a pulsed plasma thruster

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 554-559

  Spanjers, Gregory G ^a,b,c   Lotspeich, Jason S ^a,c,d   McFall, Keith A ^a,c,d   Spores, Ronald A ^a,c,d  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Electric Propulsion Laboratory   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d Propulsion Direct   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPIC IMAGING; PULSED PLASMA THRUSTERS (PPT);

ROCKET ENGINES;

EID: 0032115165     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.5313     Document Type: Article

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