Accession Number:
AD0271975
Title:
A COMPARISON OF REVERSE-FEED AND POROUS-TUNGSTEN ION ENGINES
Descriptive Note:
Corporate Author:
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON D C
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Report Date:
1962-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
1.0
Abstract:
A comparison of the theoretical performance of reverse-feed and porous-tungsten cesium ion engines is made considering 1 power efficiency, 2 propellant utilization efficiency, 3 current densities, 4 emitter temperature, and 5 charge exchange, at specific-impulse levels of 3000 to 10,000 seconds. Author