The transient behavior of a low power laboratory xenon hall thruster

33rd Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Hargus, W A ^a   Meezan, N B ^a   Cappelli, M A ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PROBES; PROPULSION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ACCELERATION CHANNELS; ELECTROSTATIC PROBE; FLOATING POTENTIALS; LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; PLASMA POTENTIAL; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR;

HALL THRUSTERS;

EID: 84962832838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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