Reentry air data system for a sub-orbital spacecraft based on X-34 design

Collection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 20, Issue , 2007, Pages 14287-14317

  Ellsworth, Joel C ^a,b,c   Whitmore, Stephen A ^a,b,c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR SOURCES; FLUSH AIRDATA SENSING SYSTEM; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SPACEFLIGHT;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REDUNDANCY; WIND TUNNELS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 34250799172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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