Progress in Payload Separation Risk Mitigation for a Deployable Venus Heat Shield

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Progress in Payload Separation Risk Mitigation for a Deployable Venus Heat Shield

Smith, Brandon P. / Yount, Bryan C. / Venkatapathy, Ethiraj / Stern, Eric C. / Prabhu, Dinesh K. / Litton, Daniel K.

A deployable decelerator known as the Adaptive Deployable Entry and Placement Technology (ADEPT) offers substantial science and mass savings for the Venus In Situ Explorer (VISE) mission. The lander and science payload must be separated from ADEPT during atmospheric entry. This paper presents a trade study of the separation system concept of operations and provides a conceptual design of the baseline: aft-separation with a subsonic parachute. Viability of the separation system depends on the vehicle's dynamic stability characteristics during deceleration from supersonic to subsonic speeds. A trajectory sensitivity study presented shows that pitch damping and Venusian winds drive stability prior to parachute deployment, while entry spin rate is not a driver of stability below Mach 5. Additionally, progress in free-flight CFD techniques capable of computing aerodynamic damping parameters is presented. Exploratory simulations of ADEPT at a constant speed of Mach number of 0.8 suggest the vehicle may have an oscillation limit cycle near 5 angle-of-attack. The proposed separation system conceptual design is thought to be viable.

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Titel :

Progress in Payload Separation Risk Mitigation for a Deployable Venus Heat Shield

Beteiligte:

Smith, Brandon P. (Autor:in) / Yount, Bryan C. (Autor:in) / Venkatapathy, Ethiraj (Autor:in) / Stern, Eric C. (Autor:in) / Prabhu, Dinesh K. (Autor:in) / Litton, Daniel K. (Autor:in)

Kongress:

22nd AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference ; 2013 ; Daytona Beach, FL, United States

Erscheinungsdatum :

2013-03-05

Medientyp :

Aufsatz (Konferenz)

Format :

Keine Angabe

Sprache :

Englisch

Schlagwörter :

Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance

Progress in Payload Separation Risk Mitigation for a Deployable Venus Heat Shield

Progress in Payload Separation Risk Mitigation for a Deployable Venus Heat Shield

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