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.


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    Title :

    Plasma propulsion for geostationary satellites for telecommunication and interplanetary missions


    Contributors:
    Dudeck, M (author) / Doveil, F (author) / Arcis, N (author) / Zurbach, S (author)


    Publication date :

    2012-02-27




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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