Overview of USAF electric propulsion program

38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Spores, Ronald A ^a   Birkan, Mitat ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE SPACE COMMANDS; ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT; INTEGRATION ISSUES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; UNITED STATES AIR FORCE;

ELECTRIC PROPULSION; MILITARY AVIATION;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84896693227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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