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SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL FORUM - STAIF 2003: Conference on Thermophysics in Microgravity; Conference on Commercial/Civil Next Generation Space Transportation; 20th Symposium on Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion; Conference on Human Space Exploration; 1st Symposium on Space Colonization

Space Technology and Applications International Forum - STAIF 2003

Mohamed S. El-Genk, Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies, Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, Albuquerque, NM, USA


AIP Conference Proceedings 654


Conference Location and Date: Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2-5 February 2003

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published January 2003; ISBN 0-7354-0115-2 CD-ROM (sold separately); 1329 pages; 8.5 X 11 inches, single column; Hardcover; $140.00

Readership: program managers, practicing engineers, academicians, and graduate students, system designers, and researchers in the fields of space technology and space science.

The proceedings document the most recent publications in a number of key areas of space technology, space nuclear power and propulsion systems and technology, solar system exploration technology, and advanced innovative propulsion concepts. The technical areas covered in these proceedings include the latest on the thermophysics in microgravity, space nuclear reactor power and propulsion systems technologies for the exploration of distant planets in the solar system, recent advances in static and dynamic energy conversion technologies including segmented thermoelectric, thermionic, alkali metals thermal to electric conversion, closed Brayton engines, and free piston Stirling engines for space power applications, high power electrical propulsion, advanced radioisotope power systems, human space exploration and colonization, advanced radioisotope power systems, and next generation commercial/civil space transportation systems technology.

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