Comparison of ISRU Excavation System Model blade force methodology and experimental results

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gallo, Christopher A ^a   Wilkinson, R Allen ^a   Mueller, Robert P ^b   Schuler, Jason M ^b   Nick, Andrew J ^b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; SOILS; SPACE PLATFORMS; WELL TESTING;

BLADE FORCES; FIELD TEST DATA; GLENN RESEARCH CENTER; JOHNSON SPACE CENTER; KENNEDY SPACE CENTERS; SOIL PROPERTY; SYSTEM MODELING; VERIFICATION TESTING;

SOIL TESTING;

EID: 78549264458     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-1387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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