Performance criteria of nuclear space propulsion systems

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 52, Issue 9-10, 1999, Pages 328-335

  Shepherd, L R ^a  

^a Broadstone   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROPELLANTS; CHEMICAL ROCKET ENGINES; INTERSTELLAR SPACE; NUCLEAR ENERGY SOURCES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; PROPULSION CONCEPT; SPACE PROPULSION SYSTEM;

NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; ROCKET ENGINES; ROCKETS; SECONDARY BATTERIES;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 0012745122     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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