Specific impulse and other characteristics of elementary propellants for ablative laser propulsion

AIAA Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 947-952

  Pakhomov, Andrew V ^a   Gregory, Don A ^a   Thompson, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; IONS; IRRADIATION; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LASER PROPULSION;

SOLID PROPELLANTS;

EID: 0036572061     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1731     Document Type: Article

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