Aerodynamic braking may be used as one means of slowing down vehicle preparatory to placing it into preassigned orbit about planet thus minimizing retrorocket requirements; this raises following problem -- what are steepest and shallowest angles at which spaceship may enter given atmosphere with given velocity; computational procedure is developed to determine thrust-augmented aerodynamic entry corridors and corresponding lift-to-drag programs and resultant trajectories; procedure is applied to study of thrust-augmented entry corridors for Mars for various vehicle characteristics and conditions.
Determination of extreme entry angles into planetary atmosphere
AIAA J
AIAA Journal ; 2 , n 2
1964
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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