Daedalon: A revolutionary morphing spacecraft design for planetary exploration

A Collection of Technical Papers - 1st Space Exploration Conference: Continuing the Voyage of Discovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1150-1163

  Lafleur, Jarret M ^a,b,c   Olds, John R ^a,b,c   Braun, Robert D ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE DESIGNS; DAEDALON DESIGN; MORPHING SPACECRAFT DESIGN; NASA INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONCEPTS (NIAC);

AIRCRAFT; LAUNCHING; PLANETS; WINGS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 28744455462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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