Minimum heating re-entry trajectories for advanced hypersonic launch vehicles

1997 Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 354-363

  Windhorst, Robert ^a   Ardema, Mark ^a   Bowles, Jeffrey ^b  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT SHIELDING; HEAT TRANSFER; LAUNCH VEHICLES; SPACECRAFT; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; TRAJECTORIES; VEHICLES;

APPROXIMATION TECHNIQUES; HEAT TRANSFER CODES; HYPERSONIC LAUNCH VEHICLES; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; REENTRY TRAJECTORIES; REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM;

REENTRY;

EID: 84959151744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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