Speaker
Alex Rosenbaum
Description
DRACO (Destructive Re-entry Assessment Container ObjecT) is a one of a kind mission aiming at understanding better the demisability of spacecrafts. The mission objectives can be summarized as:
- Demonstrating the break-up process of a spacecraft during re-entry to extrapolate ground-test to flight.
- Establishing an understanding by recording the physics of destructive aerothermal break-ups.
- Testing early fragmentation design for demise (D4D) techniques.
In this presentation an overview of DRACO mission will be discussed, going through the mission architecture, as well as the current system design.
