CV Lattes
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil). Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Itália
BSc+MSc in Ingegneria Aeronautica from the Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (1994), MSc in Aeronautical Astronautical Engineering from The Ohio State University (1999) and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southampton (2006). Currently Associate Professor at the University of Brasilia. Has experience in Aerospace Engineering, focusing on Aerospace Propulsion, and in Plasma Physics, working mainly in Electric Space Propulsion and related areas, like Plasma Torches, but also in Chemical Propulsion, focusing on Hybrid Rockets. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Associated Plasma Laboratory at INPE has been developing inert gas ion thrusters since 1985. The present degree of development of the ion thrusters demands an absolute measure of the thrust level, and this requests the project and the construction of a thrust balance. For constructive and operational reasons, as well as the researcher visitor's experience with this device, the pendulu…
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