Atmospheric reentry
... see Reentrant dysrhythmia. Mars Exploration Rover (MER) aeroshell, artistic rendition. The technology of atmospheric reentry ... that defines its aerodynamics is called an aeroshell. An entry vehicle, RV or RB is ... wave located between the shock wave and aeroshell is called the shock layer. The term ... q". A sphere-cone is a conical aeroshell with a spherical nose. The outer surfaces ... system or material used to protect an aeroshell's payload from heating due to ...
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Mars Exploration Rover
... into a tighter beam to reach Earth. Aeroshell An aeroshell overview picture can be found here: The aeroshell forms a protective covering for the lander ... the seven month voyage to Mars. The aeroshell, together with the lander and the rover ... what engineers call the "entry vehicle." The aeroshell's main purpose is to protect ...
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Miscellaneous UAV topics
... to be folded to fit into an "aeroshell", shaped like a shallow cone and covered ... Martian atmosphere at high speed. Once the aeroshell completed entry into the atmosphere, a parachute ... spacecraft would be launched, each with an aeroshell derived from the Viking Mars landers, and with each aeroshell carrying four airplanes. The aircraft would have ... microspacecraft was constrained to fit into an aeroshell no more than about 76 centimeters ( ...
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Mars Science Laboratory
... The rover is folded up within an aeroshell which protects it during the travel through ... uses the lifting force experienced by the aeroshell to "fly out" any detected error in ... targeted landing site. In order for the aeroshell to have lift, its center of mass ... a supersonic parachute is deployed and the aeroshell is discarded. The parachute is similar in ...
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Viking 2
... orbits around Mars. The lander and its aeroshell separated from the orbiter on 3 September ... the lander was reoriented for entry. The aeroshell with its ablative heat shield slowed the ... parachutes were deployed. Seven seconds later the aeroshell was jettisoned, and 8 seconds after that ...
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Viking 1
... 20 August 1975. The lander and its aeroshell separated from the orbiter on July 20 ... the lander was reoriented for entry. The aeroshell with its ablatable heat shield slowed the ... parachutes were deployed. Seven seconds later the aeroshell was jettisoned, and 8 seconds after that ...
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Patty Wagstaff
... NAA and as chief pilot of the Aeroshell aviation team. Her Aeroshell team is based in Florida. External links ...
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X-38
... 1998 (dropped by B-52) V131 & V132 Aeroshell Manufacturer Scaled Composites, Inc., Mojave, CA V201 Aeroshell Manufacturer & V131, V132, V131R & V201 Systems Integration ...
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Deep Space 2
... the first landers to use only an aeroshell, lacking parachutes or rockets to reduce their ... lb) and was encased in a protective aeroshell . They rode to Mars aboard another spacecraft ...
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Mars Polar Lander
... 82-kg cruise stage, a 140-kg aeroshell/heatshield, and the two 3.5-kg ... enclosed in the 2.4-m diameter aeroshell. The spacecraft was three-axis stabilized during ...
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