The role of water vapor and dissociative recombination processes in solar array arc initiation

40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Galofaro, J ^a   Vayne, B ^b   Degroot, W ^c   Ferguson, D ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Siliconligjt Inc   (United States)

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