Re-entry Flight Experiments Lessons Learned - The Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator ARD

Abstract

The Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator (ARD) successfully completed its atmospheric reentry flight on October 21st, 1998. This paper provides with a summary of the ARD flight data and presents some lessons learned that can be avantageously used for the development of future re-entry vehicles with precise landing capabilities. This paper widely uses materials from a serie of presentations dedicated to ARD Post-Flight analysis during the 2001 International Symposium on Re-entry systems and technologies in Arcachon.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA476493

Entities

People

  • J. C. Paulat
  • P. Boukhobza

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Atmosphere Entry
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Mathematical Models
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Space Transportation

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Missile Defense Systems.