Progress toward a variable specific impulse electrospray propulsion system

47th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Coffman, Chase S ^a   Courtney, Daniel G ^a   Hicks, Fernando M ^a   Jamil, Sara ^a   Li, Hanqing ^a   Lozano, Paulo C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVABLE PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROSTATIC THRUSTERS; FABRICATION PROCESS; MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); PRELIMINARY STUDIES; SECOND-GENERATION DESIGN; SPACE PROPULSIONS;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MEMS;

PROPULSION;

EID: 84880689487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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