Post-flight analysis of the stardust sample return capsule earth entry

46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kontinos, Dean A ^a   Stackpoole, Mairead ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS; ANALYSIS TOOLS; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; INFORMATION SOURCES; METHODS OF ANALYSIS; POST-FLIGHT ANALYSIS; RADAR SIGNATURE; SAMPLE RETURN CAPSULE; SHOCK LAYER; THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77958491864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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