Generic aerocapture atmospheric entry study. Volume 2: Trajectory appendices
Abstract
Aerothermodynamic and control system parameters and performance are discussed. Aerocapture trajectories were run for several combinations of entry path angles and velocities for the SO2P, MSR, and Uranus missions. The SO2P trajectories represent a Titan atmospheric entry for orbit about Saturn; the MSR trajectories represent a Mars atmospheric entry for orbit about Mars; similarly, the Uranus trajectories enter an Uranus atmosphere to achieve orbit about Uranus.
- Publication:
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Final Report General Electric Co
- Pub Date:
- October 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980gec..reptQW....
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Entry;
- Interorbital Trajectories;
- Orbit Transfer Vehicles;
- Spacecraft Trajectories;
- Interplanetary Trajectories;
- Orbital Velocity;
- Spacecraft Reentry;
- Thermal Protection;
- Astrodynamics