Near-space station-keeping performance of a large high-altitude notional airship

Collection of Technical Papers - 2006 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1165-1173

  Schmidt, David K ^a,b,c   Stevens, James ^a,c   Roney, Jason ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

^c Univ Colorado at Colorado Springs   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEO LOCATIONS; LIFTING GAS VOLUME; POWER STORAGE; PROPULSIVE POWER;

AIRCRAFT PROPELLERS; AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT; CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRIC MOTORS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

AIRSHIPS;

EID: 33751404127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Stevens, "Near Space," Air Force Magazine, Vol. 88, No. 7, 2005. Available at http://www.afa.org/magazine/July2005/0705near.asp
2. Hoerner, S.F. Fluid Dynamic Drag, Published by the Author, 1965.
3. Real-Time Archive, Radionsonde Database Access, Forecast Systems Laboratory, NOAA, On-line. See http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov (accessed July to October 2005).
4. Schmidt, D.K., "Dynamic Modeling, Control, and Station-Keeping Guidance of a Large, High-Altitude 'Near-Space' Airship," Paper Ko. AIAA 2006-6781. Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Keystone, CO, August, 2006.