Six-degree-of-freedom entry dispersion analysis for the METEOR recovery module

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 334-340

  Desai, Prasun N ^a,b   Braun, Robert D ^a,b   Powell, Richard W ^a,b   Engelund, Walter C ^a,b   Tartabini, Paul V ^a,b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FLIGHT SIMULATORS; INTERPOLATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; SUBSONIC AERODYNAMICS; WATER LANDING (SPACECRAFT); WIND TUNNELS;

DEORBIT BURN INITIATION; ENTRY DISPERSION; EXOATMOSPHERIC COAST PHASES; FREE MOLECULAR MODEL; LINEARIZED POTENTIAL FLOW SOLVER; MULTIPLE EXPERIMENT TRANSPORTER TO EARTH ORBIT AND RETURN MISSION;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0031142615     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3213     Document Type: Article

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