Research results are presented of an investigation of the optimum maneuvers of advanced shuttle type spacecraft during reentry. The equations are formulated by means of modified Chapman variables resulting in a general set of equations for flight analysis which are exact for reentry and for flight in a vacuum. Four planar flight typical optimum manuevers are investigated. For three-dimensional flight the optimum trajectory for maximum cross range is discussed in detail. Techniques for calculating reentry footprints are presented.
Optimum Reentry Trajectories of a Lifting Vehicle
1980
132 pages
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English
Optimum reentry trajectories of a lifting vehicle
NTRS | 1978
|Optimum reentry trajectories of a lifting vehicle
NTRS | 1980
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