Reentry-vehicle flight testing and recovery techniques. Paper AIAA-80-1455

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5241128

Rigali, D J; Sterk, M W; Randmaa, J

A technique to soft-recover high ballistic coefficient reentry vehicles from ICBM reentry conditions has been developed and demonstrated. To date, two different types of vehicles have been soft-recovered, utilizing the mass jettison, parachute recovery technique described. The fabrication and assembly of two additional RVs of different designs are presently underway in preparation for flight test. A technique to allow an increase in the severity of the environment from which an RV can be recovered is presently being analyzed and ground-tested with plans to flight-test it within two years. Descriptions of all of these vehicles and a summary of the flight-test results are presented.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); Air Force Ballistic Missile Office, Norton AFB, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5241128
• Report Number(s): SAND-80-1648C; CONF-800712-3
• Resource Relation: Conference: 15. AIAA thermophysics conference and 13. AIAA fluid and plasma dynamics conference, Snowmass, CO, USA, 14 Jul 1980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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