Huygens' entry and descent through Titan's atmosphere-Methodology and results of the trajectory reconstruction

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1845-1876

  Kazeminejad, Bobby ^a,b   Atkinson, David H ^c   Pérez Ayúcar, Miguel ^d   Lebreton, Jean Pierre ^d   Sollazzo, Claudio ^e  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e ESA ESOC   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cassini Huygens mission; Entry and descent trajectory reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; NASA; NAVIGATION; PARACHUTES; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); SPACECRAFT;

DESCENT PHASE; DROGUE PARACHUTE; HUYGENS PROBE; PHASE DECELERATION PULSE;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 35348867382     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2007.04.013     Document Type: Article

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