Attitude stability of blunt-body capsules in hypersonic rarefied regime

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 925-931

  Fujita, Kazuhisa ^a,b   Inatani, Yoshifumi ^a,b   Hiraki, Kojyu ^a,c  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Kyushu Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FREQUENCIES; LOADS (FORCES); MONTE CARLO METHODS; STABILITY;

CAPSULE SURFACES; FLIGHT SPEED; FLIGHT TRAJECTORIES; PITCHING MOMENTS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 11044237706     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.3588     Document Type: Article

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