Overview of NASA's pulsed plasma thruster development program

40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Pencil, Eric J ^a,b   Kamhawi, Hani ^a,b   Arrington, Lynn A ^a,b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Electric Propulsion Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED FUELS; COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMS; DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS; EARTH OBSERVING-1; FILM CAPACITORS; FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH; IN-ORBIT; NEW MILLENNIUM PROGRAMS; PROJECT SPONSORS; PULSED PLASMA THRUSTERS; SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS; THRUSTER PERFORMANCE;

DIAMOND FILMS; NASA; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMAS; PROPULSION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77957830738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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