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Performance Characteristics of a Cluster of 5-kW Laboratory Hall Thrusters

Mitchell L. R. Walker

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332

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Alec D. Gallimore

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 4810

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Published Online:23 May 2012https://doi.org/10.2514/1.19752

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