Rit15s and rtt 15 lp -the development of high performance mission optimized ion thrusters

35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Leiter, H J ^a   Loeb, H W ^a   Schartner, K H ^a  

^a 1St Institute of Physics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; ION BEAMS; ION PROPULSION; IONS; PROPULSION;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS; BEAM DIAMETERS; CARBON CARBONS; HIGH PERVEANCE; MISSION REQUIREMENTS; PERFORMANCE DATA; RADIO FREQUENCY ION THRUSTERS; THRUSTER DESIGN;

ION ENGINES;

EID: 84963795274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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