Flight status of cathode-less microwave discharge ion engines onboard HAYABUSA asteroid explorer

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Kuninaka, Hitoshi ^a   Nishiyama, Kazutaka ^a   Shimizu, Yukio ^a   Toki, Kyoichiro ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP SPACE; DISCHARGE ELECTRODE; DOPPLER SHIFTS; HOLLOW CATHODES; ION ENGINES; LONG LIFE; MICROWAVE DISCHARGE; POWER RATIO; RESIDUAL GAS; SPECIFIC IMPULSE; SWING BY; THRUST FORCES;

ASTEROIDS; ELECTRODES; ENGINES; GAS ENGINES; ION PROPULSION; ION SOURCES; IONS; MICROWAVES; OXYGEN; PROPULSION; SPACECRAFT;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 84869696660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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