Estimation of flyable regions for planetary airships

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1177-1181

  Kusagaya, Tairo ^a,b   Kojima, Hirohisa ^a,b,c   Fujii, Hironori A ^a,b,c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; NASA; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; MARS AIRPLANES; PLANETARY BALLOONS; REMOTELY-PILOTED AIRSHIP; SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES;

AIRSHIPS;

EID: 33748070821     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.18570     Document Type: Article

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