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Modern technology is accompanied by miniaturized devices. With increasing the use of micro satellites and micro airial vehicles (MAVs), finding new power-generating resources is inevitable. Batteries were always an option however high efficiency, long life-span and environmental consideration have encouraged the researches to focus on micro combustion. On the other hand, hydrocarbon fuel contains about 100 times more energy per unit mass than lithium-ion batteries. Micro combustion is defined as a combustion which is occurred bellow quenching distance and old literatures were uncertain about occurrence of such combustion. In this paper we present the fundamental concepts of micro combustion... 

Micro/Nano science has obtained enormous applications in aerospace engineering especially in the propulsion system of micro/nano satellites. The satellite attitude control is a vital part of every space mission. Different thruster systems have been already suggested and utilized to achieve this important mission correctly. Considering the future perspectives of space missions for small satellites, the development of micro/nano thrusters has been attracted more attention since the last decades. The scope of this research is to analyze hybrid hot/cold laboratory supersonic micro-thrusters especially for the micro-satellite implementations. The ultimate goal of the current research is to...