Plume characteristics of the busek 600 W Hall thruster

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3371-3380

  Ekholm, Jared M ^a,c   Hargus, William A ^a,c   Larson, C William ^a,c   Nakles, Michael R ^a,b,c   Reed, Garrett ^a,b,c   Niemela, Carrie S ^a,b,c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELASTIC SCATTERING; FARADAY EFFECT; ION BEAMS; ION SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HALL THRUSTER; ION ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; IONIC ENERGY SPECTRA;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 34249105498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-4659     Document Type: Conference Paper

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