Optimum recovery and landing systems for spacecraft
Abstract
The best suitable recovery and landing systems for land and water landing of present and future spacecraft are presented, such as non-steerable and steerable aerodynamic decelerators, deployable flexible wings, and lifting-body vehicles in conjunction with retro-rockets as deceleration devices. Flight test results of recently developed recovery systems are reported, and details of the Space Shuttle landing system are explained. Furthermore, rocket booster recovery systems are presented, and the landing system of the Viking spacecraft, which is to land on Mars in 1976, is described.
- Publication:
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Australian Astronautics Convention
- Pub Date:
- 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977auas.proc...51B
- Keywords:
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- Spacecraft Landing;
- Spacecraft Recovery;
- Booster Recovery;
- Deceleration;
- Flexible Wings;
- Mars Landing;
- Parachute Descent;
- Space Shuttles;
- Viking Lander Spacecraft;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles