Qualification of the forebody heatshield of the stardust’s sample return capsule

32nd Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Tran, Huy K ^a   Johnson, Christine E ^a   Hsu, Ming Ta ^b   Smith, Marnell ^c   Dill, Harry ^d   Chen Jonsson, Angie ^e  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HC Chem   (United States)

^c Thermosciences Institute   (United States)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Foothill DeAnza College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CARBON; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FLOW FIELDS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT SHIELDING; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; NASA; PYROMETERS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; SPACECRAFT; THERMOCOUPLES; THERMODYNAMICS;

AEROTHERMAL ANALYSIS; AMES RESEARCH CENTERS; ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT UNITS; FLOW FIELD CHARACTERISTICS; LIGHT-WEIGHT CERAMICS; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; POROUS CHARACTERISTICS; SAMPLE RETURN CAPSULE;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT;

EID: 84964007950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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