Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Goodfellow, K..
The successful demonstration of ion propulsion on NASA's Deep Space 1 mission has stimulated substantial interest in the application of this technology to future solar system exploration missions.
A long-duration test of the Deep Space 1 (DS1) flight spare thruster (FT2) is presently being conducted. To date, the thruster has accumulated over 6700 hours of operation.
Ground testing of the DS1 flight spare thruster (FT2) is presently being conducted.
The capabilities of the grid clearing system for the NSTAR/DS1 ion propulsion system were investigated through a series of experiments and theoretical analysis.
A series of models have been developed to describe the temperature distribution of thermionic