A survey of supersonic retropropulsion technology for Mars entry, descent, and landing

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Korzun, Ashley M ^a   Cruz, Juan R ^b   Braun, Robert D ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC COEFFICIENTS; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CURRENT STATE; ENTRY , DESCENT , AND LANDING; FLOW FIELD CHARACTERISTICS; FUTURE MISSIONS; LITERATURE SURVEYS; MARS EXPLORATIONS; SUBSONIC VELOCITY;

FLOW FIELDS; GAS DYNAMICS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; LANDING; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURVEYS; SYSTEM STABILITY; VEHICLES;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 49349107299     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2008.4526290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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