Electric propulsion development [electronic resource] : a selection of technical papers based mainly on the American Rocket Society Electric Propulsion Conference held at Berkeley, California, March 14-16, 1962 / edited by Ernst Stuhlinger.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Stuhlinger, Ernst, 1913-2008.

Conference Name:

American Rocket Society Electric Propulsion Conference (1962 : Berkeley, Calif.)

Series:

Progress in astronautics and rocketry ; v. 9.

Progress in astronautics and rocketry ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electric rocket engines--Congresses.

Electric rocket engines.

Space vehicles--Electric propulsion systems--Congresses.

Space vehicles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (762 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, 1963.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Electric Propulsion Committee""; ""Editorial Committee""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""A. Electrothermal Propulsion""; ""Objectives and Design of a 1-kw Arc-Jet Engine for Space Flight Testing""; ""Development Work on Plasma Arc Jet Engines""; ""Arc Jet Engine Performance � Experiment and Theory IV""; ""Arc Jet Design""; ""Materials Problems Related to the Electric Arc Jets""; ""A Chemical Arc-Jet Rocket Feasibility Study""; ""Chemical Nonequilibrium Effects in Thermal Arc Jet Propulsion""

""Magnetically Diffused Radial Electric-Arc Air Heater Employing Water-Cooled Copper Electrodes""""B. Electrostatic Propulsion""; ""Field Emission Microscope Study of the Kinetics of Cesium Layers on a Tungsten Surface""; ""Experimental Evaluation of Porous Materials for Surface lonization of Cesium and Potassium""; ""Experiments on Atom and Ion Emission From Porous Tungsten""; ""lonization, Emission, and Collision Processes in the Cesium Ion Engine""; ""Negative Iodine Formation on Metal Hexaboride Surfaces""; ""Electron Bombardment Ion Source""; ""Electron Transfer Discharge Ion Source""

""In-Flight Generation of Fuel for Cesium Ion Engines: The Cesium Hydride System""""Corrosivity and Contamination of Cesium in Ion Propulsion""; ""Analysis of Neutralization Problems Using the Ion Accelerator Computer Program""; ""Neutralization of Ion Beams""; ""Onboard Colloidal Particle Generator for Electrostatic Engines""; ""Glycerol Droplets for Electrostatic Propulsion""; ""C. Electromagnetic Propulsion""; ""Plasma Thermodynamics II, Complex Equilibria in Nonideal Systems""; ""Three-Fluid Nonequilibrium Plasma Accelerators (Part 1)""

""Characteristics of the Pinch Discharge in a Pulsed Plasma Accelerator""""Experimental Studies of a Repetitively Fired Two-Stage Coaxial Plasma Engine""; ""Plasma Propulsion by Means of a Helical Transmission Line""; ""Inductive High-Field Plasma Accelerators""; ""Measurements of Impulse of a Pulsed Plasma Accelerator""; ""D. Space Testing and Space Missions""; ""Limitations on the Space Test of a Cesium Ion Engine at Altitudes Below 1500km""; ""Flight Test Concept for a Pulsed Plasma Pinch Engine""; ""Payload Optimization for Power-Limited Vehicles""

""Concept for a Manned Mars Expedition With Electrically Propelled Vehicles""""Nuclear Electric Spacecraft for Unmanned Planetary and Interplanetary Missions""; ""A Nuclear-Electric Spacebus for Planetary Landing Missions""; ""Potentialities of Air-Scooping Electrical Space Propulsion Systems""; ""Contributors to Volume 9""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60086-486-4

1-60086-267-5

OCLC:

922978855