NEXT multi-thruster array test -Engineering demonstration

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

Volumn 10, Issue , 2006, Pages 8187-8208

  Patterson, Michael J ^a,b,c   Foster, John ^a,b,c   McEwen, Heather ^a,b,c   Pencil, Eric ^a,b,c   Van Noord, Jonathan ^a,b,c   Herman, Daniel ^a,b,c  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Propulsion and Propellants Branch   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING MODEL; FAULT RECOVERY MODE; MULTIPLE ION THRUSTERS; PLUME MEASUREMENTS;

ION PROPULSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NASA;

SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT;

EID: 34249301701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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