Ion voltage diagnostics in the far-field plume of a high-specific impulse Hall thruster

39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Hofer, Richard R ^a   Haas, James M ^b   Gallimore, Alec D ^c  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; HALL THRUSTERS; IONS; MAGNETOPLASMA; NASA; PROPULSION; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT;

ACCELERATION EFFICIENCIES; CYLINDRICAL LANGMUIR PROBE; DISCHARGE VOLTAGES; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; HIGH SPECIFIC IMPULSE; RETARDING POTENTIAL ANALYZER; THRUSTER EFFICIENCY; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 85085773086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2003-4556     Document Type: Conference Paper

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