Performance characteristics of the NSTAR ion thruster during an on-going long duration ground test

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2000, Pages 99-121

  Anderson, John R ^a   Goodfellow, Keith D ^a   Polk, James E ^a   Rawlin, Vincent K ^b   Sovey, James S ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL TESTING; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

GROUND TEST; ION THRUSTER; SOLAR ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY READINESS; SPACE FLIGHT THRUSTER;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034432143     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2000.878371     Document Type: Article

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