{"id":615613,"date":"2019-05-06T06:39:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20190004942"},"modified":"2019-05-06T06:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:39:15","slug":"far-field-plume-distribution-and-divergence-for-next-dart-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=615613","title":{"rendered":"Far Field Plume Distribution and Divergence for NEXT: DART Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: In support of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, laboratory measurements were made on the NEXT ion engine, which will be used for the spacecraft&#8217;s in-space propulsion [1]. This study revisits a small range of mission-specific 2.7A throttle levels to understand the effect of in-flight flow rate variability, investigate intermediate throttle conditions, and improve measurement methodology. This paper specifically examines the far-field plume divergence and backflow ion flux di&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: In support of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, laboratory measurements were made on the NEXT ion engine, which will be used for the spacecraft&#8217;s in-space propulsion [1]. This study revisits a small range of mission-specifi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615614,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615613\/revisions\/615614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}