Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures: A Statistical Approach

Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures: A Statistical Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Saleh, Joseph Homer ^a   Castet, Jean François ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1002/9781119994077     Document Type: Book

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