Operating the helicon double layer thruster in a space simulation chamber

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4 PART 1, 2008, Pages 1196-1197

  Charles, Christine ^a   Boswell, Rod ^a   Alexander, Peter ^a   Costa, Costanzo ^a   Sutherland, Orson ^a   Pfitzner, Leigh ^b   Franzen, Roger ^b   Kingwell, Jeff ^c   Parfitt, Andrew ^c   Frigot, Pierre Etienne ^d   Del Amo, Jose ^d   Saccoccia, Georgio ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Auspace Limited   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Australia; Corona; Ion beams; Plasma engines; Plasmas; Probes; Propulsion; Prototypes; Space technology

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AUSTRALIA; CORONA; DOUBLE LAYER; HELICON; ION BEAMS; PLASMA ENGINES; PLASMA SCIENCE; PLASMAS; PROBES; PROPULSION; PROTOTYPES; PUMPING SPEED; SPACE SIMULATION; SPACE TECHNOLOGY; VACUUM CHAMBERS;

HELICONS;

EID: 50249118338     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.924425     Document Type: Article

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