8th International Workshop on Radiation of High Temperature Gases for Space Missions

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27 Mar 2019, 14:30

Campus Puerta de Toledo of the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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• Brett Cruden (AMA Inc/NASA Ames)

27. Generating High Speed Earth Re-entry Test Conditions in an Expansion Tube

Dr Christopher James (The University of Queensland)

27/03/2019, 14:30

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Future space missions, such as planned asteroid sample return missions or interplanetary missions such as return from Mars, will involve entry speeds from 13 to 15km/s. While current hyperbolic Earth re-entry conditions such as Apollo, Hayabusa, and Stardust all featured some degree of radiative heating, a 15 km/s Earth entry will cross the threshold into the region where radiative heat flux...

29. EXPANSION TUBE EXPERIMENTS OF GRAPHITE ABLATION AND RADIATION IN HYPERVELOCITY EARTH-ENTRY FLOWS

Mr Ranjith Ravichandran (School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia)

27/03/2019, 15:00

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The atmospheric entry of spacecraft is characterized by very high entry speeds and the formation of a bow shock in front of the blunt body. The sudden deceleration of the vehicle converts the kinetic energy of the vehicle into thermal energy of the gas which gets dissipated in the form of convective and radiative heat transfer. The gas species trapped inside the shock layer undergo a very high...

58. VUV emission measurements in an ICP torch facility

Sean McGuire

27/03/2019, 15:30

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For manned missions beyond earth orbit, the radiative heat flux is expected to represent a significant portion of the total heat flux to the capsule surface. This is due to the high entry speeds and large capsule sizes expected.[1, 2] Examples of where the radiative heat flux becomes substantial include missions to Venus [1] and Mars return to earth missions[3]. A substantial portion of this...