Helicon plasma injector and ion cyclotron acceleration development in the Vasimr experiment

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

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Squire, Tared P ^a   Chang Diaz, Franklin R ^a   Jacobson, Verlin T ^a   Mccaskill, Greg E ^a   Bengtson, Roger D ^b   Goulding, Richard H ^c  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PLASMA SOURCES; PROPULSION; SPACE FLIGHT;

ADVANCED SPACE PROPULSIONS; CIRCULAR POLARIZED WAVES; ELECTRON GYROMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL DEVICES; FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION; ION ACCELERATIONS; RADIO FREQUENCY WAVES; VARIABLE SPECIFIC IMPULSE MAGNETOPLASMA ROCKETS;

HELICONS;

EID: 84896475594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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