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Handbook of Recommended Practices for the Determination of Liquid Monopropellant Rocket Engine PerformanceThe design, installation, and operation of systems to be used for directly measuring quantities of fundamental importance to the determination of monopropellant thruster performance is described. Areas covered include: (1) force and impulse measurement; (2) propellant mass usage and flow measurement; (3) pressure measurement; (4) temperature measurement; (5) exhaust gas composition measurement; and (6) data reduction and performance determination.
Document ID
19790022112
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
R A Bjorklund (Jet Propulsion Laboratory La Cañada Flintridge, United States)
R S Rogero (Jet Propulsion Laboratory La Cañada Flintridge, United States)
R K Baerwald (Jet Propulsion Laboratory La Cañada Flintridge, United States)
Date Acquired
September 3, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 1979
Subject Category
Spacecraft Propulsion And Power
Report/Patent Number
AFRPL-TR-79-24
Report Number: NASA-CR-162111
Report Number: JPL-PUB-79-32
NASA-CR-162111
JPL-PUB-79-32
Accession Number
79N30283
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS7-100
CONTRACT_GRANT: F04611-76-X-0053
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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