ETS-III Ion Engine Flight Operations In The Extended Mission Period (1998)
Kitamura,S., Nagano,H., Wakamura,Y., Kudo,I., Machida,.
An ion engine subsystem (IES) with two electron bombardment mercury ion thrusters of 5-cm anode diameter was flight-tested on the Engineering Test Satellite-III (ETS-III) in the extended mission from...