The HYTHIRM project: Flight thermography of the space shuttle during hypersonic re-entry

48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Horvath, Thomas J ^a   Tomek, Deborah M ^a   Berger, Karen T ^a   Splinter, Scott C ^a   Zalameda, Joseph N ^a   Krasa, Paul W ^a   Tack, Steve ^b   Schwartz, Richard J ^c   Gibson, David M ^d   Tietjen, Alan ^e  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AERONAUTICS RESEARCH; ANALYSIS TOOLS; AS-CAST; ATLANTIS; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY; DYNAMIC RANGE; ENGINEERING SAFETY; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; FLIGHT TEST; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYPERSONIC FLIGHTS; HYPERSONIC RE-ENTRY; HYPERVELOCITIES; INFRARED IMAGERY; INFRARED MEASUREMENTS; INFRARED SIGNATURE; INTENSITY IMAGES; MISSION PLANNING; PRE-FLIGHT; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; SHUTTLE FLIGHT; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAMS; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE THERMOCOUPLES; TEMPERATURE MAPS; THERMAL DATA; THERMAL IMAGERY; THERMAL IMAGING; THERMAL MEASUREMENTS; US NAVY; WINDWARD SURFACE;

AIRCRAFT; EXPERIMENTS; HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; NASA; REENTRY; SPACE SHUTTLES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOCOUPLES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78649809784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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