The article discusses some of the problems involved in bringing a winged space apparatus down at a landing site from a circular orbit. It discusses longitudinal and lateral control of the aircraft in the descent process. A system for the automatic control of the space apparatus in the descent process is described, with emphasis on the effect of various disturbances.
Nonlinear Laws of Control of a Gliding Winged Space Apparatus in Coming Out of Circular Orbit onto a Runway
1971
24 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aerodynamics for a Winged, Circular-Body, Single-Stage-to-Orbit Spacecraft Configuration
Online Contents | 1997
|NTIS | 1965