Reentry Design Handbook for Sounding Rocket Payloads

Abstract

A reentry design handbook has been developed which will assist the sounding rocket payload integration engineer in determining potential reentry dynamics and heating problems in small fineness ratio (2.5 to 7) cylinders and cone-cylinders.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA053671

Entities

People

  • Carl D. Engel
  • James V. Mcanally
  • Judy K. Lapointe

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Aerodynamic Forces
  • Aerodynamic Heating
  • Air Force
  • Ballistic Trajectories
  • Boundary Layer
  • Convection
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Fineness Ratio
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geometry
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Transport Properties
  • Turbulent Flow

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Business Analytics
  • Missile Defense Systems.