Orbit transfer in a resistive medium with a variable thrust hall thruster

34th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Raitses, Y ^a   Guelman, M ^b   Ashkenazy, J ^a   Appelbaum, G ^a  

^a SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORBITAL TRANSFER; ORBITS; PROPULSION; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

FLIGHT TIME; ORBIT TRANSFER; PERFORMANCE CAPABILITY; PROPELLANT MASS; SPACECRAFT OPERATION; THRUST ACCELERATION; THRUSTER PERFORMANCE; TRANSFER TRAJECTORY;

HALL THRUSTERS;

EID: 84963804071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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