Small reentry vehicles

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Dec 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987ruimt..36...15s&link_type=abstract

Ruimtevaart, vol. 36, Dec. 1987, p. 15-26. In Dutch.

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Payload Delivery (Sts), Reentry Vehicles, Space Transportation, Spacecraft Design, Cassini Mission, Space Commercialization

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The design and potential applications of a small modular unguided reentry vehicle (SMURV) being developed for ESA are discussed. The first studies of the SMURV concept in the Spacemail program (for transporting small payloads from the Space Shuttle to earth) are recalled; the steps in a typical Spacemail operation are listed and briefly characterized; and the smaller version of SMURV (40 kg instead of 120 kg) developed for a Space Station Spacemail project (requiring 1000-1500 SMURVs) is described. This SMURV configuration comprises a detachable propulsion module and a reentry module (containing the parachute system and the recovery module). Consideration is given to a SMURV-type vehicle to return microgravity processing samples from the ESA Interim Flight Opportunity spacecraft, the technological challenges posed by SMURV design, and SMURV applications to the Comet Nucleus Sample Return and Cassini Titan Lander missions. Diagrams and drawings are provided.

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