Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall Thrusters presents the fundamentals of electric propulsion and explains in detail how the two major electric thrusters in use today, namely Ion and Hall thrusters, work.  It is the first textbook on this subject to be published in 40 years.

Features include:

• Photographs of ion and Hall thrusters that have successfully flown in space over the last 10 years.
• Tables showing the performance of the flight ion and Hall thrusters over the last 10 years.
• 204 figures and 21 tables showing thruster and cathode schematics, data and results.
• 61 homework problems at the end of the chapters.
• 390 references in the bibliography.
• A Solutions Manual is available