PPT development efforts at primex aerospace company

35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Hoskins, W Andrew ^a   Wilson, Michael J ^a   Willey, Michael J ^a   Meckel, Nicole J ^a   Campell, Mark ^b   Chung, Seung ^b  

^a Primex Aerospace Company   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSATELLITES; PULSED PLASMA THRUSTERS;

AEROSPACE COMPANY; COMPACT SYSTEM; CONTROL FUNCTIONS; PROPULSION APPLICATIONS; PROPULSION SYSTEM; RESEARCH TOOLS; UNIVERSITY LABORATORIES; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 84963826928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1999-2291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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