Plasma characteristics measured in the plume of a NEXT multi-thruster array

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

Volumn 10, Issue , 2006, Pages 8209-8227

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

^a Propulsion and Propellants Branch   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA PARTICLE FLOW; PLASMA POTENTIAL; PLUME PLASMA PARAMETERS;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; LANGMUIR PROBES; PLASMA DENSITY; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

ELECTRIC PROPULSION;

EID: 34249721518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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