Analysis of pressure measurements during cold-gas thruster firings onboard suborbital spacecraft

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 688-692

  Gatsonis, Nikos A ^a   Erlandson, R E ^b   Swaminathan, P K ^b   Kumar, C K ^b  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; POSITION CONTROL; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

COLD GAS THRUSTERS; SUBORBITAL SPACECRAFTS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0033364188     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3480     Document Type: Article

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