Mission advantages of next: NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster

38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Oleson, Steven ^a   Gefert, Leon ^a   Benson, Scott ^a   Patterson, Michael ^a   Noca, Muriel ^b   Sims, Jon ^b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP SPACE ONES; ION PROPULSION SYSTEMS; OFFICE OF SPACE SCIENCE; OUTER PLANETS; PROPULSION SYSTEM; SAMPLE RETURN; SCIENCE MISSIONS; SPECIFIC IMPULSE;

ION PROPULSION; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

NASA;

EID: 84896693579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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