NEXT study of thruster extended-performance (NEXT step)

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3408-3423

  Patterson, Michael J ^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 MODELS; LIFE TIME CAPABILITIES; NASA'S EVOLUTIONARY XENON THRUSTER (NEXT); THROTTLING; THRUST DENSITY;

ION PROPULSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NASA; ROCKET ENGINES; XENON;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34249329630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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