Titan airship explorer

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 327-336

  Hall, Jeffery L ^a   Kerzhanovich, Viktor V ^a   Jones, Jack A ^a   Cutts, James A ^a   Yavrouian, Andre A ^a   Colozza, Antony ^b   Lorenz, Ralph D ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; NAVIGATION AND CONTROL; RADIOISOTOPE THERMAL GENERATORS; SMALL TEMPERATURE VARIATION; SURFACE PLATFORMS; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METHANE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PROPULSION; REAL TIME CONTROL;

AIRSHIPS;

EID: 11244302049     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2002.1036852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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