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Multimission solar electric spacecraft propulsion module design for Asteroid Belt, Jupiter and out-of-ecliptic missions, including thrustor failure and power conditioning requirements
Liquid metal /mercury/ cathode thrustor system for operation at reduced beam voltages, discussing design and performance
High temperature acceleration of propellants in electrothermal thrustors including resistojet, arcjet, thermionic and plasma configurations
Radioisotope thrustors for space propulsion, considering thermal heating methods and direct recoil
Attitude and orbit control electric propulsion systems for long term space stations, discussing resistojets and electron bombardment and contact ionization ion thrustors
Solar-electric ion propulsion mission analysis and spacecraft designs, discussing thrustor, power conditioning, propellant storage and feed, etc
Exhaust pressure measurements on pulsed magnetoplasmadynamic arc thrustor
Low frequency plasma noise from mercury electron bombardment ion thrustor studied for several magnetic field configurations
Electronic cathodes for use in electron bombardment ion thrustors
Tests of permanent magnet and superconducting magnet MPD radiation cooled thrustors
Instabilities and turbulence in highly ionized plasmas in magnetic field related to problems of thrustors for manned space flight and plasma generated energy
High specific impulse of several hydrazine thrustors ignited by electrical heaters within thrust chamber during experimental evaluation
Preliminary investigation to eliminate or reduce concentrated charge exchange ion erosion of accelerator grid supports for electron bombardment ion thrustors
Cathode insulator modifications of radiation cooled MPD arc thrustor tested in power range of 9.8 to 46.4 kW using ammonia as principal propellant
Dual grid electrostatic thrust vectoring system with capability of vectoring beam from 5 cm thrustor to plus or minus 10 degrees or more
Internal labyrinth and shield structure to improve electrical isolation of propellant feed source from ion thrustor
Potential star tracker interference from radiation produced by mercury bombardment thrustors using electric propulsion systems