HUGHES ELECTRON DYNAMICS DIV
HUGHES ELECTRON DYNAMICS DIV., Torrance, Calif., has built a thermal vacuum chamber to test the xenon ion propulsion system (XIPS) that it is installing on Hughes HS 702 satellites to save launch weight. The electric propulsion devices allow satellite designers to cut the propellant load for station...
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