High-pressure-pumped hydrazine for Mars sample return

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 532-538

  Whitehead, John C ^a   Brewster, Gerald T ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Primex Aerospace Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; HYDRAZINE; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; LIFT; ORBITS; PLANETARY LANDERS; PLANETS;

HIGH PRESSURE PUMPED HYDRAZINE TECHNOLOGY; LIFT OFF MASS; MARS ASCENT VEHICLE;

PROPELLANTS;

EID: 0034224912     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3596     Document Type: Article

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