Performance evaluation of the XIPS 25-cm thruster for application to NASA discovery missions

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE 42nd Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3433-3445

  Tighe, William G ^a   Chien, Kuei Ru ^a   Solis, Ezequiel ^a   Rebello, Peter ^a,b   Goebel, Dan M ^c   Snyder, John Steven ^c  

^a TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b EK Engineering Services Inc   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID BELT; DISCOVERY MISSION; THRUSTERS; XENON ION PROPULSION SYSTEM (XIPS);

ASTEROIDS; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; SPACECRAFT;

NASA;

EID: 34249035143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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