Spacecraft aerodynamics during aerobraking maneuver in planetary atmospheres

31st Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  Rault, Didier F ^a   Cestero, Francisco J ^b,c   Shane, Russell W ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SURVEYING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; REACTION CONTROL SYSTEM; SIMULATION PREDICTION; STRONG INTERACTION; SURFACE DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSITION FLOW REGIME;

AEROBRAKING;

EID: 84964507195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1996-1890     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

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5. Bird, G. A., "Molecular Gas Dynamics and The Direct Simulation of Gas Flows," Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994.
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