A historical review of inflatable aerodynamic decelerator technology development

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Smith, Brandon P ^a   Tanner, Christopher L ^a   Mahzari, Milad ^a   Clark, Ian G ^a   Braun, Robert D ^a   Cheatwood, F McNeil ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DECELERATORS; DEVELOPMENT HISTORY; DYNAMIC PRESSURES; HISTORICAL REVIEW; NUMEROUS SYSTEMS; PAST AND PRESENT; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PROBE MISSIONS; QUANTITATIVE ENGINEERING; SUB-DISCIPLINES; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT;

AERODYNAMICS; DECELERATION; MACH NUMBER; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77952804882     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2010.5447013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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