Mercury mission design using solar electric propulsion spacecraft

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 95 PART 2, Issue , 1997, Pages 891-900

  Kluever, Craig A ^a,b   Abu Saymeh, Mudar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

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EID: 5744249773     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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