Characterization of plasma flux incident on a multi-thruster array

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

Volumn 10, Issue , 2006, Pages 8246-8262

  McEwen, Heather ^a,b,c   Foster, John ^a,b,c   Patterson, Michael ^a,b,c   Pencil, Eric ^a,b,c   Diaz, Esther ^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

ELECTROSTATIC PROBES; ENGINEERING MODEL ENGINES; PLASMA ENVIRONMENT; THRUSTER ACCELERATORS;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; LANGMUIR PROBES; NASA; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA DENSITY;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 34249674979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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