Apr 14 2003
From The Space Library
Boeing announced that Boeing Electronic Dynamic Devices Inc. (EDD) had won three new contracts~the Carbon-Based Ion Optics project, the NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) system, and the High Power Electric Propulsion (HiPEP) project~under NASA's In-Space Propulsion Program to develop advanced xenon ion-propulsion technologies. Teamed with NASA's JPL and GRC, EDD would lead the two-phased effort to develop advanced carbon-based ion optics, ultimately testing designs for carbon-based ion optics for their potential use in the next-generation ion engine. According to terms of the second contract, EDD would support GRC in developing the NEXT system, a next-generation, high-power, ion-propulsion system intended for space science missions. Under the third contract, EDD would support GRC in developing and testing technologies for the HiPEP project. (The Boeing Company, “Boeing EDD Wins NASA Contracts for Advanced Electric Propulsion,” news release, 14 April 2003, http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2003/q2/nr_030414s.html (accessed 19 September 2008).
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