Helicon double layer thrusters

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

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 5139-5142

  Charles, C ^a,e   Boswell, R W ^a,e   Alexander, P ^a,e   Costa, C ^a,e   Sutherland, O ^a,e   Pfitzner, L ^b,f   Franzen, R ^b,f   Kingwell, J ^c,g   Parfitt, A ^c,g   Frigot, P E ^d,h   Del Amo, J Gonzalez ^d,h   Gengembre, E ^d,h   Saccoccia, G ^d,h   Walker, R ^d,g  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Auspace Limited   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e SP3   (Australia)

^f NA   (Australia)

^g CRCSS ^*

^h EPL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION BEAMS; ION PROPULSION; OPTIMIZATION; PROPELLANTS;

HELICON DOUBLE LAYER THRUSTER; MAGNETIC NOZZLE;

HELICONS;

EID: 34249329212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-4838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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