Investigation of a candidate non-magneticion microthruster for small spacecraft applications

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

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Yoimg, Marc ^a   Muntz, E P ^a   Ketsdever, Andrew D ^b  

^a Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION PROPULSION; ION SOURCES; LANGMUIR PROBES; PROPULSION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

DEGREE OF IONIZATION; DISCHARGE CHAMBER; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; LANGMUIR PROBE MEASUREMENTS; OPERATING CONDITION; SIMPLE MODELING; SMALL SPACECRAFTS; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES;

IONIZATION;

EID: 84963864481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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