Status of the extended life test of the deep space 1 flight spare ion engine after 30,352 hours of operation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Sengupta, Anita ^a   Brophy, John R ^a   Goodfellow, Keith D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE CATHODE KEEPERS; ELECTRICAL ISOLATION; ENGINE DEVELOPMENT; OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; POST-TEST ANALYSIS; THRUSTER PERFORMANCE; XENON PROPELLANT;

CATHODES; ENGINES; EROSION; ION ENGINES; ION PROPULSION; NASA; PROPULSION;

TESTING;

EID: 84897586017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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