Survey of afterbody aeroheating flight data for planetary probe thermal protection system design

38th AIAA Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Wright, Michael J ^a   Milos, Frank S ^a   Tran, Philippe ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERO-HEATING; BASE HEATING; CODE VALIDATION; FLIGHT VEHICLES; PLANETARY ENTRY; PLANETARY PROBES; PRESSURE DATA; THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; PROBES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AERODYNAMIC HEATING;

EID: 34250816666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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