23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-8.3.1

RE-ENTRY MOTION OF AN AXIALSYMMETRIC VEHICLE AND ITS ANALYSIS BASED ON FLIGHT SIMULATION

A. Guidi
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Keywords: re-entry, stability, hypersonic

The dynamic stability evaluation of an axisymmetric re-entry vehicle is especially concerned on the behavior of its angle of attack during the flight through the atmosphere. Although the simpleness of an axisymmetric shape, the re-entry of such a vehicle is characterized by several complex phenomenologies that were analyzed with the aid of the flight simulator.

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