Testing of flexible ballutes in hypersonic wind tunnels for planetary aerocapture

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 21, Issue , 2006, Pages 16045-16053

  Buck, Gregory M ^a,b,c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Aerothermodynamics Branch

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerocapture; Ballute; Deflections; Hypersonic; Stability

Indexed keywords

AEROCAPTURE; BALLUTE; DEFLECTIONS;

LASER APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYMER FILMS; SYSTEM STABILITY; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIND TUNNELS;

HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 34250731224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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