Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
A natural successor in the Shuttle era to many sounding rocket flights is the free-flyer mode of operation, in which the Shuttle Orbiter releases a subsatellite (with payloads), effects a desired separation, and approaches and retrieves the free-layer. The propulsive maneuvers required of the Orbiter by equivalent relative motions obtained through controlled differential drag (via changes in free-layer effective area and/or Orbiter attitude changes) are replaced. Simplified analytical techniques are developed and feasibility is verified.
Keywords:
ASTRONAUTICS (GENERAL)
Type:
NASA-TM-79698
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PAPER-79-0494
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AIAA 5th Sounding Rocket Technol. Conf.; Mar 07, 1979 - Mar 09, 1979; Houston, TX; United States
Format:
application/pdf
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