Thrust stand micro-mass balance diagnostic techniques for the direct measurement of specific impulse

Collection of Technical Papers - 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2995-3007

  Lee, Riki H ^a,c   D'Souza, Brian C ^a,c   Lilly, Taylor C ^a,c   Ketsdever, Andrew D ^b,d  

^a Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d Aerophysics Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATION; SOLID PROPELLANTS;

COUPLED FORCE MEASUREMENTS; MICRO-MASS BALANCE; SPECIFIC IMPULSE; TORSION BALANCE;

ELECTRIC PROPULSION;

EID: 36749056926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-5300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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