Nanoaluminium - Water slurry: A novel "green" propellant for space applications

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 557, 2004, Pages 71-73

  Shafirovich, Evgeny ^a,b   Bocanegra, Pablo Escot ^a   Chauveau, Christian ^a   Gökalp, Iskender ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; OXIDATION; ROCKET ENGINES; SATELLITES; SLURRIES; SOLID PROPELLANTS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; TOXIC MATERIALS;

LOW-THRUST ENGINES; MONOPROPELLANTS; NANOALUMINUM; WATER SLURRY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 22144446447     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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