Progress toward the development of a 50 kW VASIMR engine

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 12343-12354

  Bering III, Edgar A ^a,c   Squire, Jared P ^b,d   McCaskill, Greg ^b,d   Jacobson, Verlin ^b,d   Glover, Timothy W ^b,d   Brukardt, Michael ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Physics and ECE   (United States)

^d ASPL/JSC/NASA   (United States)

^e 617 Science and Research I PHYS 5005

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOTRONS; HEATING; HELICONS; MAGNETOPLASMA; NOZZLES; PROPELLANTS; RESONANCE;

MAGNETIC NOZZLE; MAGNETOPLASMA ROCKETS; PLASMA ACCELERATION; PROPELLANT FLOW;

ROCKET ENGINES;

EID: 30744446723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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