Development of a PPT for the EO-1 spacecraft

35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Benson, Scott W ^a   Arrington, Lynn A ^a   Hoskins, W Andrew ^b   Meckel, Nicole J ^b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Primex Aerospace Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION TESTING; PROPULSION; PULSED PLASMA THRUSTERS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT;

ACCEPTANCE TESTING; EARTH OBSERVING 1; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; NEW MILLENNIUM PROGRAMS; SPECIFIC IMPULSE; TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGNS; TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH; TECHNOLOGY SELECTION;

ACCEPTANCE TESTS;

EID: 84963829466     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1999-2276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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