Design and development of a sub-scale nitrous oxide monopropellant gas generator

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 4417-4426

  Lohner, Kevin ^a,b,c   Dyer, Jonny ^a,b,c   Doran, Eric ^a,c,d   Dunn, Zachary ^a,c,d   Krieger, Brian ^a,b,c   Decker, Valentin ^a,b,c   Wooley, Eric ^a,b,c   Sadhwani, Andy ^a,c,d   Cantwell, Brian ^a,c,d   Kenny, Thomas ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; DECOMPOSITION; GAS GENERATORS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; TEST FACILITIES;

BED LOADINGS; HOT FIRE DURATIONS; MONOPROPELLANTS; NITROUS OXIDE;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 36749096828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-5463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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