Optimization of the cathode heating technique in a pulsed MPD thruster

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

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Paganucci, Fabrizio ^a   Rossetti, Paola ^a   Andrenucci, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT TESTING; HEATING; MAGNETOPLASMA; PROPULSION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOCOUPLES; TUNGSTEN; WORK FUNCTION;

CURRENT EMISSIONS; EMITTING SURFACE; EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES; MPD THRUSTERS; TEST EQUIPMENTS; UNIFORM HEATING;

CATHODES;

EID: 84963831017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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