Performance and life testing of small han thrusters

35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Meinhard, Dennis ^a   Christofferson, Stacy ^a   Wucherer, E J ^a   Reed, Brian ^b  

^a Primex Aerospace Company   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; COMBUSTION; ELECTRON EMISSION; EXHAUST GASES; METALS; MONOPROPELLANTS; PRECIOUS METALS; PROPULSION; ROCKET ENGINES; ROCKETS;

CATALYST SURFACES; CHAMBER TEMPERATURE; COMBUSTION EXHAUSTS; HAN-BASED PROPELLANTS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; HYDROXYLAMMONIUM NITRATE; NOBLE METAL CATALYSTS; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT;

CATALYSTS;

EID: 84963850013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. This work is being performed under NASA contract NAS3-27782 from the NASA Glenn Research Center.
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