IN THE continued exploration of the Solar System, science objectives often require the
landing of a payload on the surface of a body with a sensible atmosphere. Examples of …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0011. vid On February 18th, 2021,
the Mars 2020 entry vehicle delivered the Perseverance rover to the surface of Mars. The …

Sounding Rocket One (SR-1), the first flight test of the Adaptable Deployable Entry and
Placement Technology (ADEPT), was performed on September 12, 2018. ADEPT is a …

Numerical simulations were conducted to investigate dynamic instability of a Japanese lift-
type reentry capsule, which is named H-II transfer vehicle Recovery Vehicle (HRV), at Mach …

Sounding Rocket One (SR-1), the first flight test of the Adaptable Deployable Entry and
Placement Technology (ADEPT), was performed on Sept. 12, 2018. ADEPT is a deployable …

Free-flight computational fluid/rigid-body dynamics simulations are now being explored as a
way to augment physical experiments for characterizing the dynamic behavior of blunt-body …

SINCE the Viking program [1], all NASA 70 deg sphere–cone Mars entry capsules [2–8]
have made use of a base pressure correction for the axial force coefficient. This base …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1793. vid The desire to model
increasingly complex unsteady flow phenomena drives coupling of physics-based …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1169. vid Attitude history
reconstruction of Free-flight CFD generated trajectories with non-linear pitch damping …

The dynamic stability of a reentry lifting capsule with a large aftbody was studied by
synergistic experimental and numerical investigations. Free-to-rotate wind-tunnel tests …