SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL FORUM - STAIF 2002: Conference on Thermophysics in Microgravity, Conference on Innovative Transportation Systems for Exploration of the Solar System and Beyond, 19th Symposium on Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion, Conference on Commercial/Civil Next Generation Space Transportation

Space Technology and Applications International Forum 2002

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

Conference Location and Date: Albuquerque, New Mexico, 3-6 February 2002

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published January 2002; ISBN 0-7354-0053-9 CD-ROM (sold separately); 1249 pages; 8.5 X 11 inches, single column; Hardcover; $150.00

Readership: program managers, practicing engineers, academicians, and graduate students in the fields of space technology, space science and experimentation, power systems development, and fluid physics and thermophysics in microgravity; government agencies and policy makers in the above fields.

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 an 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 for manned exploration of Mars and other distant planets in the solar system, static energy conversion technology on segmented thermoelectric, thermionic, alkali metals as well as thermal to electric conversion. Additional areas include radioisotope power systems, and the recent advances in the technology of Stirling and Brayton engines for space nuclear power and propulsion, and next generation commerical/civil space transportation systems technology.

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