Colloid thrusters for the new millennium, ST7 DRS mission

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 202-213

  Hruby, V ^a   Gamero Castano M ^a   Spence, D ^a   Gasdaska, C ^a   Demmons, N ^a   McCormick, R ^a   Falkos, P ^a   Young, J ^a   Connolly, W ^b  

^a Busek Co Inc   (United States)

^b Electronic Design Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOID MICRO-THRUSTER (CMT); DIGITAL CONTROL AND INTERFACE UNIT (DCIU); GRAVITATIONAL REFERENCE SENSORS (GRS); POWER PROCESSING UNIT (PPU);

DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GRAVITATION; PROPELLANTS; SENSORS; TRAJECTORIES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 11244351668     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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