An overview of results from the ion diagnostics sensors flown on DS1

39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Brinza, D E ^a   Henry, M D ^a   Mactutis, A T ^a   McCarty, K P ^a   Rademacher, J D ^a   Van Zandt, T R ^a   Narvaez, P ^a   Wang, J J ^a   Tsurutani, B T ^a   Katz, I ^b   Davis, V A ^b   Moses, S ^c   Musmann, G ^d   Kuhnke, F ^d   Richter, I ^d   Othmer, C ^d   Glassmeier, K H ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MAXWELL TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE; MAGNETIC ENVIRONMENTS; PROPULSION SUBSYSTEMS; PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY; SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION; SPACECRAFT SUBSYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION; TECHNOLOGY VALIDATIONS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ION EXCHANGE; ION PROPULSION; NASA; PLASMAS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 84897832692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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