Mars Lander engine plume impingement environment of the Mars science Laboratory

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sengupta, Anita ^a   Kulleck, James ^a   Sell, Steve ^a   Van Norman, John ^b   Mehta, Manish ^c   Pokora, Mark ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ANALYTICAL SERVICES AND MATERIALS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBAG LANDING SYSTEMS; LANDING SITE; MARS EXPLORERS; MARS LANDERS; MARS PATHFINDER; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY MISSIONS; MONOPROPELLANT THRUSTERS; NOZZLE EXIT PLANE; PLUME IMPINGEMENT; SENSITIVE INSTRUMENTS; SOIL BEARING CAPACITY; SOIL EROSION; SOIL INTERACTION; SOIL MEDIA; SOLAR ARRAYS; SURFACE COATINGS; SURFACE OF MARS; VERTICAL SEPARATION;

COATINGS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; LANDING; LUNAR LANDING; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; ROCKET ENGINES; SOILS; SPACECRAFT;

EROSION;

EID: 70349128643     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2009.4839345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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