The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment II launched August 17, 2009, from NASA Wallops Flight Facility. The three mission objectives were to demonstrate inflation and re-entry survivability, assess the thermal and drag performance of the reentry vehicle, and to collect flight data for comparison with analysis and design techniques used in vehicle development. The flight was a complete success, with the re-entry vehicle separating cleanly from the launcher, inflating as planned, and demonstrating stable flight through reentry and descent while on-board systems telemetered video and flight performance data to the ground.
Flight Performance of the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment II
International Planetary Probe Workshop 2010 (IPPW-7) ; 2010 ; Barcelona, Spain, Spain
2010-06-14
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Low-Density Aerodynamics for the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment
Online Contents | 2006
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