Analysis of Electric Propulsion System for Exploration of Saturn

Figure 3

(a) Angle to the spacecraft velocity (continuous line) and angle to the orbital plane (discontinuous line). (b) Thrust vector (continuous line) and 𝛼/𝑔 and specific impulse (discontinuous line). Both for effective specific power of 50 W/kg (NEP), TOF=10 years and 𝑉_inf=5 km/s.

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