Ion cyclotron heating results in the VASIMR VX-10

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Glover, Tim W ^a,d   Diaz, Franklin Chang ^a,e   Jacobson, Verlin ^a,d   Tarditi, Alfonso G ^a,d   Squire, Jared P ^a,d   Chavers, D Gregory ^b,f   Carter, Mark D ^c  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Muniz Engineering   (United States)

^e Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory   (United States)

^f NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS; HELICON PLASMA SOURCE; ION CYCLOTRON RESONANT HEATING; IONCYCLOTRON HEATING; JOHNSON SPACE CENTER; MAGNETIC NOZZLES; MEGAWATT POWER; POWER LEVELS; SCALEABLE; SPECIFIC IMPULSE; VARIABLE SPECIFIC IMPULSE MAGNETOPLASMA ROCKETS;

CYCLOTRON RADIATION; HEATING EQUIPMENT; HELICONS; IONS; PLASMA HEATING; PLASMA SOURCES; PROPULSION; SPACE PLATFORMS;

CYCLOTRONS;

EID: 77957856384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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