The VASIMR engine: Project status and recent accomplishments

AIAA Paper

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1717-1724

  Díaz, F R Chang ^a   Squire, J P ^a   Glover, T ^a   Petro, A J ^a   Bering III, E A ^b   Baity Jr , F W ^c   Goulding, R H ^c   Carter, M D ^c   Bengtson, R D ^d   Breizman, B N ^d  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFVENIC TRANSITIONS; CONSTANT POWER THROTTLING (CPT); OPEN-ENDED MAGNETIC SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOTRONS; DEUTERIUM; FLUXES; IONIZATION OF GASES; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA DENSITY; PROPELLANTS; RADIO WAVES; ROCKET ENGINES; ROCKETS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 2942707815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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