5,000-hour endurance test of a 35-cm xenon ion thruster

37th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Hayakawa, Y ^a   Kitamura, S ^a   Yoshida, H ^b   Akai, K ^b   Yamamoto, Y ^b   Maeda, T ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ION BEAMS; ION ENGINES; ION PROPULSION; IONS; XENON;

CALCULATION ERROR; ENDURANCE TEST; METAL DEPOSITION; XENON IONS;

TESTING;

EID: 85088757455     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-3492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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