Maximizing payload mass fractions of spacecraft for interplanetary electric propulsion missions

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 822-827

  Patel, Prashant ^a,c   Scheeres, Daniel ^a,b,c   Gallimore, Alec ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROPELLANTS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; TRAJECTORIES;

ELECTRIC PROPULSION MISSIONS; LAUNCH VEHICLE; MASS FRACTIONS; PAYLOAD MASS FRACTION; VARIABLE EXHAUST VELOCITY SYSTEMS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 33748030778     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.17433     Document Type: Article

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