Fabrication and testing of the free molecule micro-resistojet initial results

36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Ketsdever, Andrew D ^a   Green, Amanda A ^b   Muntz, E P ^b   Vargo, Stephen E ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MEMS; MOLECULES; PROPULSION; SPACE PLATFORMS;

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; HEAT TRANSFER LOSS; HEATER TEMPERATURES; LIGHT-WEIGHT CONSTRUCTIONS; MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); POWER LIMITATIONS; WATER VAPOR PROPELLANT;

FABRICATION;

EID: 0347906366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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