Effect of Water and Humidity on Hypergolic Propellant Ignition Delay

Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Jared Willits and Logan Kamperschroer for their contributions to the test campaigns and the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University for the financial support of part of the experiments presented in this paper.
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