Result of 18,000-hour endurance test on microwave discahrge ion thruster engineering model

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

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Kuninaka, Hitoshi ^a   Funaki, Ikko ^a   Nishiyama, Kazutaka ^a   Shimizu, Yukio ^a   Toki, Kyoichiro ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION PROPULSION; MICROWAVES; PROPULSION;

ENDURANCE TEST; ENGINE SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING MODELING; GRID SYSTEMS; HOLLOW CATHODES; ION THRUSTER; MICROWAVE DISCHARGE; SPACE MISSIONS;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 84896481828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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