To design space vehicle intended for return payloads from geostationary orbit, the Moon,
and other large and small planets of the Solar system, knowledge of the total (convective …

RADIATION environment models are widely used to predict radiation doses expected on a
variety of space flight missions. In these models, omnidirectional electron and proton fluxes …

A CubeSat mission to study the impact of flow incidence angle, surface material and surface
roughness on gas–surface interactions on spacecraft in low Earth orbits has been designed …

AS DENSITY models have improved in terms of temporal and spatial resolution, they have
become an integral part of the orbit prediction process, and they have resulted in greatly …

Conclusions The results reported here are the first experimental demonstration that the
electrical properties of a solar array blanket can significantly impact the performance of the …

STARDUST capsule sample return project [1] successfully completed in 2006 is an
outstanding scientific and engineering space experiment of the last decade …

Drag coefficient is a major source of uncertainty in predicting the orbit of a satellite in low
Earth orbit (LEO). Computational methods like the Test Particle Monte Carlo (TPMC) and …

Abstract The Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-60) deployed six Orbital Debris Radar
Calibration Spheres (ODERACS 1) on February 9, 1994. A year later on February 3, 1995 …

The discrepancies in atmospheric densities deduced from satellites of compact and long
cylindrical shapes can be used to improve our knowledge of drag coefficients. Constraints …

The hypersonic, laminar flow around the Space Shuttle Orbiter has been computed for both
an ideal gas (7= 1.2) and equilibrium air using a real-gas, parabolized Navier-Stokes code …