Shuttle entry imaging using infrared thermography

Collection of Technical Papers - 39th AIAA Thermophysics Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 971-990

  Horvath, Thomas ^a,f,g   Berry, Scott ^a,f,g   Alter, Stephen ^a,f,g   Blanchard, Robert ^b,g,h   Schwartz, Richard ^c,i   Ross, Martin ^d,e   Tack, Steve ^e,j  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e United States Navy ^*

^f Aerothermodynamics Branch

^g AIAA   (United States)

^h NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

ⁱ Advanced Sensing and Optical Measurement Branch   (United States)

^j CAST GLANCE Flight Operations

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS SHEDDING; FLIGHT THERMOGRAPHY IMAGES; OPTICAL SIGNATURES; SHUTTLE ENTRY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; MACH NUMBER; SPACE DEBRIS; THERMOCOUPLES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

SPACE SHUTTLES;

EID: 35748947776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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