Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall Thrusters

Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall Thrusters

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-507

  Goebel, Dan M ^a   Katz, Ira ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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