One geometry currently under consideration for the Aeroassist Flight Experiment (AFE) vehicle is composed of several segments of simple general conics: an ellipsoidal nose tangent to an elliptical cone and a base skirt with the base plane raked relative to the body axis. An analytic representation for the body coordinates and first and second partial derivatives of this configuration has been developed. Equations are given which define the body radius and partial derivatives for a prescribed axial and circumferential position on the vehicle. The results for a sample case are tabulated and presented graphically.


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    Title :

    Geometerial description for a proposed aeroassist flight experiment vehicle


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1986-07-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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