Effects of an internally-mounted cathode on hall thruster plume properties

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1702-1724

  Hofer, Richard R ^a,b,c   Johnson, Lee K ^a,b,c   Goebel, Dan M ^a,b,c   Fitzgerald, Dennis J ^a,b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Propulsion and Materials Engineering Section   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

HALL THRUSTER PLUME PROPERTIES; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL); MULTI-MODE HALL THRUSTER;

THERMAL PLUMES;

EID: 34249312282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-4482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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