The suite of Inflatable Re-Entry Vehicle Experiments (IRVE) is designed to further our knowledge and understanding of Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators (HIADs). Before infusion into a future mission, three challenges need to be addressed: surviving the heat pulse during re-entry, demonstrating system performance at relevant scales, and demonstrating controllability in the atmosphere. IRVE-4 will contribute to a better understanding of controllability by characterizing how a HIAD responds to a set of controlled inputs. The ability to control a HIAD is vital for missions that are g-limited, require precision targeting and guidance for aerocapture or entry, descent, and landing. The IRVE-4 flight test will focus on taking a first look into controlling a HIAD. This paper will give an overview of the IRVE-4 mission including the control response portion of the flight test sequence, and will provide a review of the mission s development.


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    Title :

    Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-4) Overview



    Conference:

    21st AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference and Seminar ; 2011 ; Dublin, Ireland


    Publication date :

    2011-05-23


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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