HYTHIRM radiance modeling and image analyses in support of STS-119, STS-125 and STS-128 space shuttle hypersonic re-entries

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gibson, David M ^a   Spisz, Thomas S ^a   Taylor, Jeff C ^a   Zalameda, Joseph N ^b   Horvath, Thomas J ^b   Tomek, Deborah M ^b   Tietjen, Alan B ^c   Tack, Steve ^d   Bush, Brett C ^e  

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

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^e RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HYPERSONIC VEHICLES; INFRARED DEVICES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MACH NUMBER; REENTRY; SPACE SHUTTLES; THERMOCOUPLES;

BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITIONS; HYPERSONIC RE-ENTRY; ITERATIVE PROCESS; SENSOR RESOLUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE MAPPING; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; THERMOCOUPLE MEASUREMENTS;

TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

EID: 78649861333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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