Atmospheric research with the small expendable deployer system: Preliminary analysis

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 70-78

  Grassi, Michele ^a,c   Cosmo, Mario L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DRAG; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; SMALL EXPENDABLE DEPLOYER SYSTEMS;

WEATHER SATELLITES;

EID: 0029679204     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.55709     Document Type: Article

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