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NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) Power Processing Unit (PPU) capacitor failure root cause analysis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Soeder, James F. (Author)
Corporate Author:	International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
Format:	Government Document Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cleveland, Ohio : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Glenn Research Center, 2012.
Series:	NASA technical memorandum ; 2012-217667.
Subjects:	Ion propulsion. Electronic equipment tests. Capacitors. Beam switching. Frequency distribution. Failure analysis. Ion engines.
Online Access:	https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo32556

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