Solar thermal thruster made of single crystal molybdenum

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-28

  Shimizu, Morio ^a   Itoh, Katsuya ^a   Sato, Hitoshi ^a   Fujii, Tadayuki ^b   Igarashi, Tadashi ^c   Okamoto, Ken Ichi ^c  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Tungsten Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; MOLYBDENUM; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

CRYSTAL MOLYBDENUM; SOLAR THERMAL PROPULSION (STP) SYSTEMS;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 0031176763     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(97)00200-2     Document Type: Article

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