Aerobraking and aerocapture for planetary missions

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Feb 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980asaer..18...48f&link_type=abstract

Astronautics and Aeronautics, vol. 18, Feb. 1980, p. 48-55, 71

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Aerobraking, Aerocapture, Aeromaneuvering, Space Exploration, Space Missions, Braking, Economic Factors, Interplanetary Spacecraft, Interplanetary Trajectories, Planetary Atmospheres, Satellite Antennas, Space Shuttle Orbiters, Space Shuttle Payloads

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The paper examines the utilization of aerodynamic forces to capture a vehicle into a closed orbit and/or to modify an orbit. Attention is given to two techniques: aerobraking which uses drag during successive passes through the upper atmosphere to circularize a highly elliptical orbit, and aerocapture which transfers a vehicle into a closed stable orbit from a hyperbolic flyby trajectory. Sample missions employing both techniques are discussed.

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