Lifetime assessment of the NEXT ion thruster

Collection of Technical Papers - 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2717-2740

  Van Noord, Jonathan L ^a,b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Propulsion and Propellants Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION THRUSTERS; LIFETIME ASSESSMENT;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ION PROPULSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROPELLANTS;

HALL EFFECT;

EID: 36749029567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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