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Mercury bombardment ion thrustor life test in space environment onboard space electric rocket test /SERT/ satellite, describing passive satellite thermal control system design
Causes and magnitudes of thrust misalignment of Kaufman type electron bombardment ion thrustor
Low thrust mission simulation dependence on hardware definition, discussing power plant characteristics, jet velocity and thrustor efficiency
Liquid mercury /LM/ cathode thrustor characteristics, power conditioning and control requirements
Hollow cathode ion thrustor and lightweight power conditioner of solar-electric propulsion system for unmanned deep space probes
Unmanned electric propulsion spacecraft with external fuel and flashlight thermionic reactors, discussing thrustor arrays, weight and performance for reference Jupiter orbiter mission
Throttleable thrustor system for Mars soft landing, selecting catalytic decomposition engine from system weight and performance studies
Submillipound mercury electron bombardment ion thrustor efficiency, noting cathode pole piece, baffle position and geometry influence on ion chamber performance
Digital computer simulation and analysis of control loops for ion thrustor control
Solar electric propulsion system performance consisting of thrustors with thrust vector aligning actuators, switching network and flight type power conditioner
One millipound cesium ion thrustor for synchronous ATS-F satellite, describing power conditioning and control logic subsystems
Thrust measurements on pulsed vacuum-arc thrustor, comparing specific impulse and efficiency with exhaust velocity measurements by ion collecting double probes
Thrustor exhaust effluent characteristics relating to spacecraft contamination
Power conditioning system for Hg ion thrustor on SERT 2 spacecraft, considering performance, design, control circuits and arcing
SERT 2 spacecraft surface contamination by Hg ion thrustor effluents, using solar cell sensors
SERT 2 measurements for spacecraft and ion beam potential as function of thrustor and orbital parameters, using hot wire emissive probes
In-flight thrust measurement methods on SERT 2 ion thrustors, using accelerometer, electrical parameters and orbit change
SERT 2 spacecraft ion thrustor ground tests and flight operation, tabulating performance data