Alternate propellant evaluation for 100-joule-class pulsed plasma thrusters

39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Pencil, Eric J ^a   Kamhawi, Hani ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION RATES; ABLATIVE PULSED PLASMA THRUSTERS; DISCHARGE CURRENT WAVEFORMS; DISCHARGE ENERGY; ENERGY RANGES; LEAST SQUARE; LINEAR FITS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE (PTFE);

ABLATION; PROPELLANTS; PROPULSION; PULSED PLASMA THRUSTERS;

CARBON;

EID: 84897585660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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