Aerospace Vehicle Entry Flightpath Control
TBMG-47685
03/01/2023
- Content
Future high-mass missions to Mars, advancements in hypersonic aerospace vehicle design, and evolving science goals are stretching the performance capabilities of traditional entry systems. NASA’s Pterodactyl team at Ames Research Center has developed a novel yaw-to-bank control system for a non-traditional vehicle configurations, such as a Deployable Entry Vehicle (DEV), that can be folded and stowed. The approach provides vehicle stabilization, steering, and precise targeted landing. This control architecture is agnostic to control actuators and can be used with any aerospace vehicle with a strong dihedral effect and/or different guidance control variables.
- Citation
- "Aerospace Vehicle Entry Flightpath Control," Mobility Engineering, March 1, 2023.