A technique to soft-recover high ballistic coefficient reentry vehicles from ICBM reentry conditions has been developed and demonstrated. To date, two different types of vehicles have been soft-recovered, utilizing the mass jettison, parachute recovery technique described. The fabrication and assembly of two additional RVs of different designs are presently underway in preparation for flight test. A technique to allow an increase in the severity of the environment from which an RV can be recovered is presently being analyzed and ground-tested with plans to flight-test it within two years. Descriptions of all of these vehicles and a summary of the flight-test results are presented. (ERA citation 05:031025)


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    Title :

    Reentry-Vehicle Flight Testing and Recovery Techniques. Paper AIAA-80-1455


    Contributors:
    D. J. Rigali (author) / M. W. Sterk (author) / J. Randmaa (author)

    Publication date :

    1980


    Size :

    12 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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