The design, development and in-flight qualification of a low cost resistojet

36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Gibbon, D M ^a   Lawrence, Maj T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; LIQUID PROPELLANTS; NASA; NITROGEN OXIDES; PACKED BEDS; PROPULSION; SILICON CARBIDE;

INVERTED PENDULUM; LOW EARTH ORBITS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE TESTS; QUALIFICATION TEST; RESISTOJET THRUSTERS; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; THRUSTER DESIGN;

SOLAR POWER SATELLITES;

EID: 84896487449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. Lawrence T.J., "Research into Water Resistojets for Small Satellite Application", MPhil./Ph.D. Transfer Report, Department of Electrical Engineering, CSER, University of Surrey, Guildford UK, Sep 1996.
2. Lawrence, T., Sweeting, M., Paul, Drum, J., Humble, R., and Sellers, J. "Results of Cold Gas and Resistojet Research for Small Satellite Application", 11th Annual AIAA/USU Small Satellite Conference, Logan, Utah, September 1997.
3. M.N. Sweeting, T. Lawrence, J. Leduc. "Low-cost Orbit Manoeuvres for Minisatellites using novel Resistojet Thrusters", Proceedings of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Volume 213, part G.
4. Lawrence, T. "Research into Resistojet Rockets for Small Satellite Applications", Ph. D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, CSER, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK June, 1998.
5. LeDuc, J. R., et. al. (1997), "Mission Planning, Hardware Development, and Ground Testing for the Pulsed Plasma Thruster (PPT) Flight Demonstration on MightySat II. 1", 33rd Joint Propulsion Conference, Seattle, WA. AIAA 97-2779