Title:
Summary of Ultralightweight Ballute Technology Advances

dc.contributor.author Masciarelli, Jim en_US
dc.contributor.author Miller, Kevin L. en_US
dc.contributor.author Rohrschneider, Reuben en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-01-20T19:58:49Z
dc.date.available 2009-01-20T19:58:49Z
dc.date.issued 2008-06-26
dc.description This presentation was part of the session : Cross Cutting Technologies en_US
dc.description Sixth International Planetary Probe Workshop en_US
dc.description.abstract Ultralightweight ballutes offer the potential to provide the deceleration for entry and aerocapture missions at a fraction of the mass of traditional methods. A team consisting of Ball Aerospace, ILC Dover, NASA Langley, NASA JSC, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory worked to address technical issues associated with ultralightweight ballutes for aerocapture missions under funding provided by the In-Space Propulsion Office at NASA MSFC. Significant technology advances have been made in the areas of ballute materials, aerothermal analysis, trajectory control, aeroelastic modeling, hypersonic test, and overall ballute system design processes. The results show that ultralightweight ballutes provide excellent performance and packaging benefits aerocapture, de-orbit, entry, descent, and landing missions to planetary bodies with a sensible atmosphere. This paper discusses ultralightweight ballutes, the technology advances made by the team, and applicability of the technology to planetary probe missions. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship NASA en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26369
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries IPPW08. Cross Cutting Technologies en_US
dc.subject Ballutes en_US
dc.subject Hypersonic en_US
dc.subject Computational fluid dynamics en_US
dc.subject Planetary entry en_US
dc.subject Aeroelastic en_US
dc.subject Inflatables en_US
dc.title Summary of Ultralightweight Ballute Technology Advances en_US
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dc.type.genre Proceedings
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local.contributor.corporatename Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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