Ion engine generated charge exchange environment: Comparison between NSTAR flight data and numerical simulations

35th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Davis, V A ^a   Katz, I ^a   Mandell, M J ^a   Brinza, D E ^b   Henry, M D ^b   Wang, J J ^b   Young, D T ^b  

^a MAXWELL TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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