The advantages of electric propulsion for the orbit maintenance of geostationary satellites for telecommunications are described. Different types of plasma sources for space propulsion are presented. Due to its large performances, one of them, named Hall effect thruster is described in detail and two recent missions in space (Stentor and Smart1) using French Hall thrusters are briefly presented.
Plasma propulsion for geostationary satellites for telecommunication and interplanetary missions
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering ; 29 , 1 ; 012010
2012-02-27
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Electronic Resource
English
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