"you can get there from here": Advanced low cost propulsion concepts for small satellites beyond LEO

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 57, Issue 2-8, 2005, Pages 288-301

  Baker, Adam M ^a   Da Silva Curiel, Alex ^a   Schaffner, Jake ^b   Sweeting, Martin ^a  

^a SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTANE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; CRYOGENICS; EARTH (PLANET); MANEUVERABILITY; ORBITS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PROPELLANTS; SATELLITES; SPACE FLIGHT; XENON;

BIPROPELLANT ENGINES; CRYOGENIC PROPULSION; LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO); PAYLOADS; SMALL SATELLITES;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 19944390667     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2005.03.046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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