Continuous-wave laser thruster experiment

Vacuum

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-72

  Toyoda, Kazuhiro ^a   Komurasaki, Kimiya ^a   Arakawa, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

LASER SUSTAINED PLASMAS; LASER THRUSTERS;

VACUUM TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0034299770     PISSN: 0042207X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-207X(00)00255-4     Document Type: Article

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