Titan ballute aerocapture using a perturbed TitanGRAM model

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1304-1315

  Johnson, Wyatt R ^a,b   Lyons, Dan T ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Mission Design and Navigation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROCAPTURE; AEROCAPTURE DRAG; DENSITY PROFILES; NOISE PERTURBATION;

ACCELEROMETERS; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DRAG; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPACECRAFT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 19644363053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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