Performance of titanium optics on a NASA 30 cm ion thruster

36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Soulas, George C ^a   Foster, John E ^a   Patterson, Michael J ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ION ENGINES; ION PROPULSION; IONS; MOLYBDENUM; NASA; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; TITANIUM;

BEAM CURRENTS; BEAM DIVERGENCE; BEAM DIVERGENCE ANGLES; CORRECTION FACTORS; GRID MATERIAL; PERFORMANCE TESTS; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; THRUSTER DESIGN;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 85086614483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2000-3814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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