Design and integration of small RTPV generators with new millennium spacecraft for outer solar system

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 801-816

  Schock, A ^a   Or, C ^a   Kumar, V ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; THERMAL INSULATION; THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY CONVERSION;

HEAT SOURCE MODULES; RADIOISOTOPE THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC (RTPV) POWER SYSTEMS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0031318944     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(97)00175-6     Document Type: Article

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