Free-flight testing in support of the Mars Science Laboratory aerodynamics database

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 293-302

  Brown, Jeff ^a,b   Yates, Leslie ^a,c,d   Bogdanoff, David ^a,b,d   Chapman, Gary ^a,d   Loomis, Mark ^b,d,e   Tam, Tim ^b,d,e,f  

^a ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Aerospace Computing Inc   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Reacting Flow Environments Branch   (United States)

^f CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTATION THEORY; DAMPING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; NUMBER THEORY;

DYNAMIC AERODYNAMIC COEFFICIENTS; HYPERSONIC MACH NUMBERS; PITCH DAMPING;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 33646696615     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.19221     Document Type: Article

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