Mission focus: Successful management practices on the Galileo and Ulysses radioisotope power sources program

Space Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 123-132

  Bennett, Gary L ^a  

^a Metaspace Enterprises   (United States)

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EID: 8744315133     PISSN: 08929270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0892-9270(97)00027-4     Document Type: Article

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