Innovative explorer mission to interstellar space

JBIS - Journal British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 71-75

  Gruntman, Mike ^a   Mcnutt Jr , Ralph L ^b   Gold, Robert E ^b   Krimigis, Stamatios M ^b   Roelof, Edmond C ^b   Leary, James C ^b   Gloeckler, George ^c   Koehn, Patrick L ^c   Kurth, William S ^d   Oleson, Steve R ^e   Fiehler, Douglas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric propulsion; Interstellar medium; Interstellar mission; Interstellar space; RTG

Indexed keywords

IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERSTELLAR MEDIUMS; INTERSTELLAR MISSIONS; INTERSTELLAR SPACE; NUCLEAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS; RTG; STIRLING RADIOISOTOPE GENERATOR; TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES;

ELECTRIC PROPULSION; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 31644442286     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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