Low-power ion thruster development status

34th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Patterson, Michael J ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION PROPULSION; PROPULSION; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

DEVELOPMENT STATUS; HIGH SPECIFIC IMPULSE; HOLLOW CATHODES; ION PROPULSION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SMALL SPACECRAFTS; SPECIFIC IMPULSE;

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EID: 77956774047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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