A Long Duration Test (LDT) was initiated in June 2005 as a part of NASAs Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) service life validation approach. Testing was voluntarily terminated in February 2014, with the thruster accumulating 51,184 hours of operation, processing 918 kg of xenon propellant, and delivering 35.5 MN-s of total impulse. This presentation will present the post-test inspection results to date for the thrusters ion optics.


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    Title :

    Post-Test Inspection of Nasa's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster Long Duration Test Hardware: Ion Optics


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    Conference:

    AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference ; 2016 ; Salt Lake City,UT, United States


    Publication date :

    2016-07-25


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English