A comprehensive development status evaluation is presented for the field of electric propulsion. Specific impulses range from 500-800 sec for satellite stationkeeping and 800-1500 sec of earth-earth orbit-raising maneuvers to 2000-5000 sec for trajectories to Mars and as much as 5000-100,000 sec for trajectories to more distant destinations. The successful deployment of low-power arcjet systems for auxilliary propulsion has been critical to the development of designs for higher-performance devices.


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    Title :

    Electric propulsion - The future is now


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    Published in:

    Aerospace America ; 30 , 7, Ju


    Publication date :

    1992-07-01



    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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