Assessment of spectroscopic, real-time ion thruster grid erosion-rate measurements

36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Domonkos, Matthew T ^a   Stevens, Richard E ^b  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b Whitworth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ION PROPULSION; NASA; PROPULSION; TITANIUM;

DEEP SPACE ONES; DIRECT EXAMINATIONS; DISCHARGE CHAMBER; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; PLANETARY MISSION; RESEARCH CENTER; SPECIFIC IMPULSE;

EROSION;

EID: 84896469306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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