Aerodynamic Performance of the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) Technology Demonstration Mission

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Aerodynamic Performance of the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) Technology Demonstration Mission

Ashley M Korzun / Brian R Hollis / Adam J Wise / Derek S Liechty / Christopher D Karlgaard / Rohan G Deshmukh

The Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) mission successfully demonstrated the deployment and entry performance of a 6 m diameter Hypersonic Inflatable Decelerator on November 10, 2022. This was the largest blunt body flown to date and demonstrated this inflatable aeroshell technology at scale and conditions relevant to Earth and Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing applications. LOFTID built upon the prior successes of the suborbital IRVE and IRVE-3 missions, leveraging and expanding on the flight experience from these and other planetary and Earth sample return missions. Both the re-entry vehicle and ejectable data module were successfully recovered from the Pacific Ocean, with LOFTID satisfying requirements for decelerator performance and stable flight from orbital entry conditions through parachute deployment and splashdown. This work discusses the pre-flight aerodynamics database and reconstructed flight performance of the LOFTID re-entry vehicle.

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Title :

Aerodynamic Performance of the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) Technology Demonstration Mission

Contributors:

Ashley M Korzun (author) / Brian R Hollis (author) / Adam J Wise (author) / Derek S Liechty (author) / Christopher D Karlgaard (author) / Rohan G Deshmukh (author)

Conference:

AIAA 2024 SciTech Forum ; 2024 ; Orlando, FL, US

Type of media :

Conference paper

Type of material :

No indication

Language :

English

Keywords :

aerodynamics , Aerodynamics , HIAD , LOFTID