Ablative laser propulsion: Specific impulse and thrust derived from force measurements

AIAA Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2305-2311

  Pakhomov, Andrew V ^a   Thompson, M Shane ^a,b   Swift, Wesley ^a,c   Gregory, Don A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b Info Systems Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORCE MEASUREMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PLASMA THEORY; PROPULSION; SENSORS;

TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF);

LASER ABLATION;

EID: 0036850394     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1567     Document Type: Article

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