Traveling the Solar System using ion engines

This paper provides an overview of the system and presents the flight validation data from the first 7600 hours of ion propulsion system operation in interplanetary space.

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NASA NTRS2000

Design and fabrication of a micro-ion engine

This article describes the configuration of the discharge chamber and design and fabrication of the grids and field emission array (FEA) cathodes.

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NASA NTRS2000

Three-Dimensional Particle Simulation Modeling of Ion Propulsion Plasma Environment for Deep Space One

A fully three-dimentional particle-in-cell simulation model was developed to obtain ion propulsion charge-exchange plasma environment over the entire downstream-to-upstream region for the Deep Space 1 (DS1) spacecraft.

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