GRC - 2003 Ion Propulsion Publications

Publication	Title
AIAA-2003-4557	Performance and Vibration of 30 cm Pyrolytic Ion Thruster Optics
AIAA-2003-4574	A Comparison of Electric Propulsion Systems for Mars Exploration
AIAA-2003-4709	Ion Propulsion Development Activities at the NASA Glenn Research Center
AIAA-2003-4862	NEXT: NASA’S Evolutionary Xenon Thruster Development Status
AIAA-2003-4863	Status of the NEXT Ion Engine Wear Test
AIAA-2003-4864	Testing And Analysis of N.E.X.T. Ion Engine Discharge Cathode Assembly Wear
AIAA-2003-4865	Characterization of Downstream Ion Energy Distributions from a High Current Hollow Cathode in a Ring Cusp Discharge Chamber
AIAA-2003-4866	Long Life, High Specific Impulse Titanium Ion Optics
AIAA-2003-5012	Discharge Characterization of 40 cm-Microwave ECR Ion Source and Neutralizer
AIAA-2003-5145	Comparison of On-Orbit and Ground Based Hollow Cathode Operation
AIAA-2003-5278	Performance Evaluation of the NEXT Ion Engine
IEPC-03-137	Radioisotope Electric Propulsion for New Frontiers Class Missions
IEPC-03-288	Development Status of NEXT: NASA’S Evolutionary Xenon Thruster

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Publication	Title
AIAA-2003-4867	Development of the NEXT Power Processing Unit
AIAA-2003-4868	Grid Erosion Modeling of the NEXT Ion Thruster Optics
AIAA-2003-4869	NEXT Ion Optics Simulation via ffx
AIAA-2003-4880	Xenon Propellant Management System for 40 cm NEXT Ion Thruster
AIAA-2003-5160	Experimental And Modeling Studies of Low Energy Ion Sputtering in Ion Thrusters
IEPC-03-069	Discharge Plasma Parameters of a 30-cm Ion Thruster Measured without Beam Extraction using a High-Speed Probe Positioning System
IEPC-03-110	Numerical Analysis of NEXT Ion Thruster Optics