Preliminary plume characterization of a low-power Hall thruster cluster

38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Beal, Brian E ^a   Gallimore, Alec D ^a   Hargus Jr , William A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRONS; HALL THRUSTERS; IONS; LANGMUIR PROBES; PLASMA DENSITY; PROPULSION; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SHOCK WAVES;

AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY; COLLISIONLESS SHOCKS; ELECTRON NUMBER DENSITIES; HALL EFFECT THRUSTERS; ION VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; SIMPLE GEOMETRIC MODELS; TRIPLE LANGMUIR PROBES; TWO STREAM INSTABILITY;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85087188154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-4251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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