Stretching the operational envelope of the PPS®X000 plasma thruster

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Duchemin, Olivier ^a,d   Dumazert, Pierre ^a,d   Cornu, Nicolas ^a,d   Estublier, Denis ^b,e   Darnon, Franck ^c  

^a SNECMA   (France)

^b ESTEC   (Netherlands)

^c CNES   (France)

^d Plasma Propulsion Section   (France)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE CHANNEL; DISCHARGE POWER; DISCHARGE VOLTAGES; LARGE DOMAIN; LOW-VOLTAGE DISCHARGES; MAGNETIC INDUCTION; PLASMA THRUSTERS; POWER LEVELS; SPECIFIC IMPULSE; TEST DATA; THRUST EFFICIENCY;

ELECTRON MOBILITY; IMPULSE TESTING; PROPULSION;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

EID: 84888530055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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