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The detection of explosive conditions in aerospace propulsion applications is important for safety and economic reasons. Microfabricated hydrogen, oxygen, and hydrocarbon sensors as well as the accompanying hardware and software are being developed for a range of aerospace safety applications. The development of these sensors is being done using MEMS (Micro ElectroMechanical Systems) based technology and SiC-based semiconductor technology. The hardware and software allows control and interrogation of each sensor head and reduces accompanying cabling through multiplexing. These systems are being applied on the X-33 and on an upcoming STS-95 Shuttle mission. A number of commercial applications are also being pursued. It is concluded that this MEMS-based technology has significant potential to reduce costs and increase safety in a variety of aerospace applications. Hunter, G. W. and Neudeck, P. G. and Chen, L. - Y. and Makel, D. B. and Liu, C. C. and Wu, Q. H. and Knight, D. Glenn Research Center NASA/TM-1998-208817, E-11419, NAS 1.15:208817, AIAA Paper 98-3614 RTOP 254-02-0A...

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