The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment 3 (IRVE-3) launched July 23, 2012, from NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) on a Black Brant XI suborbital sounding rocket and successfully performed its mission, demonstrating the survivability of a hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator (HIAD) in the reentry heating environment and also illustrating the effect of an offset center of gravity on the HIAD's lift-to-drag ratio. IRVE-3 was a follow-on to 2009's IRVE-II mission, which demonstrated exo-atmospheric inflation, reentry survivability - without significant heating - and the aerodynamic stability of a HIAD down to subsonic flight conditions. NASA Langley Research Center is leading the development of HIAD technology for use on future interplanetary and Earth reentry missions.


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    Title :

    Flight Performance of the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment 3


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW-10) ; 2013 ; San Jose, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2013-06-17


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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