Trailing ballute aerocapture: Concept and feasibility assessment

39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Miller, Kevin L ^a   Gulick, Doug ^a   Lewis, Jake ^a   Trochman, Bill ^a   Stein, Jim ^b   Lyons, Daniel T ^c   Wilmoth, Richard G ^d  

^a BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^b ILC DOVER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerocapture; Direct simulation monte carlo (DSMC); Inflatable; Rarefied flow; Thin film structures

Indexed keywords

AEROCAPTURE; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; INFLATABLE; RAREFIED FLOW; THIN-FILM STRUCTURE;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PLANETS; PROPULSION; SPACE RESEARCH;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 84897586247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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