After having been in development for many years at Glenn Research Center, the NASA design 30 cm ring-cusp xenon ion engine was launched on the DS1 spacecraft on 24 October 1998 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NSTAR Xenon Ion Engine on DS1: Ground & Flight Tests
ISIS 1999
1999-09-06
Conference paper
No indication
English
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