Single crystal Mo solar thermal thruster for microsatellites

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 345-351

  Shimizu, Morio ^a   Itoh, Katsuya ^a   Sato, Hitoshi ^a   Fujii, Tadayuki ^b   Okamoto, Ken ichi ^c   Takaoka, Shigehiko ^c   Shiina, Kotaro ^d   Nakamura, Yoshihiro ^e  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Tungsten Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d IHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORBITAL TRANSFER; PROPELLANTS; SATELLITES; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

MICROSATELLITES; SOLAR THERMAL PROPULSION; SOLAR THERMAL THRUSTER;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 0033108536     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(99)00081-8     Document Type: Article

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