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

Abstract

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.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); Air Force Ballistic Missile Office, Norton AFB, CA (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
5241128
Report Number(s):
SAND-80-1648C; CONF-800712-3
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-76DP00789
Resource Type:
Conference
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
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; REENTRY VEHICLES; RECOVERY; TESTING; DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS; DESIGN; PARACHUTES; REENTRY; REVIEWS; SPACE VEHICLES; DOCUMENT TYPES; 420200* - Engineering- Facilities, Equipment, & Techniques

Citation Formats

Rigali, D J, Sterk, M W, and Randmaa, J. Reentry-vehicle flight testing and recovery techniques. Paper AIAA-80-1455. United States: N. p., 1980. Web.
Rigali, D J, Sterk, M W, & Randmaa, J. Reentry-vehicle flight testing and recovery techniques. Paper AIAA-80-1455. United States.
Rigali, D J, Sterk, M W, and Randmaa, J. 1980. "Reentry-vehicle flight testing and recovery techniques. Paper AIAA-80-1455". United States.
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author = {Rigali, D J and Sterk, M W and Randmaa, J},
abstractNote = {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.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980},
month = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980}
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