Studies currently underway for Mars missions often envision the use of aerobraking for orbital capture at Mars. These missions generally involve blunt-nosed vehicles to dissipate the excess energy of the interplanetary transfer. Radiative heating may be of importance in these blunt-body flows because of the highly energetic shock layer around the blunt nose. In addition, the Martian atmosphere contains CO2, whose dissociation products are known to include strong radiators. An inviscid, equilibrium, stagnation point, radiation-coupled flow-field code has been developed for investigating blunt-body atmospheric entry. The method has been compared with ground-based and flight data for air, and reasonable agreement has been found. In the present work, the method was applied to a matrix of conditions in the Martian atmosphere. These conditions encompass most trajectories of interest for Mars exploration spacecraft. The predicted equilibrium radiative heating to the stagnation point of the vehicle is presented.


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    Title :

    Equilibrium Radiative Heating Tables for Aerobraking in the Martian Atmosphere


    Contributors:
    L. C. Hartung (author) / K. Sutton (author) / F. Brauns (author)

    Publication date :

    1990


    Size :

    20 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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