Description
Computation of planetary re-entry trajectories; optimal guidance; skipped and bounced trajectories; aerocapture, aerobraking, and aerogravity assist manoeuvres; Descent and landing trajectories; Re-targeting guidance; Hazard-avoidance trajectories
Dr
Bent Fritsche
(HTG)
17/03/2016, 08:00
07: Re-Entry and Aero-Assisted Maneuvers
Oral presentation at the conference
Spacecraft re-entering the Earth atmosphere in an uncontrolled manner may get stabilised by restoring aerodynamic torques, if they have an appropriate shape and mass distribution. While the aerodynamic force (mainly drag) is usually a second-order effect compared to the gravitational acceleration by the Earth at altitudes above 150 km, sometimes the aerodynamic torques can already compete with...
Mr
Mariano Sánchez Nogales
(DEIMOS Space S.L.U.)
17/03/2016, 08:20
07: Re-Entry and Aero-Assisted Maneuvers
Oral presentation at the conference
The Planetary Entry Toolbox (PETbox) is a set of multiple modules developed by DEIMOS Space S.L.U. to support Mission Engineering and Flight Mechanics in the area of Atmospheric Flight.
PETbox has been intensively and successfully used in multiple ESA projects, EU projects and private initiatives covering a very wide range of vehicles (launchers, lifting bodies, capsules, UAVs, winged...
Mr
David Seelbinder
(DLR)
17/03/2016, 08:40
07: Re-Entry and Aero-Assisted Maneuvers
Oral presentation at the conference
The real-time generation of optimal trajectories and controls for nonlinear systems is a technology of interest to many applications. But the online solution of an optimal control problem (OCP) is often not computationally feasible on embedded systems. We present a method to generate a near-optimal control sequence and the corresponding state trajectory based on the parametric sensitivity...
Mr
Rodrigo Haya Ramos
(SENER)
17/03/2016, 09:20
07: Re-Entry and Aero-Assisted Maneuvers
Oral presentation at the conference
The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) is an ESA re-entry lifting body demonstrator built to verify in-flight the performance of critical re-entry technologies. The IXV was launched on February the 11th, 2015, aboard Europe’s Vega launcher.
The IXV´s flight and successful recovery represents a major step forward with respect to previous European re-entry experience with the Atmospheric...
