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Problems of Interplanetary Navigation and Atmospheric Re-Entry*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

T. R. F. Nonweiler*
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Queen's University, Belfast

Extract

In this lecture i want to survey some of the problems of the aerodynamics of re-entry, as they affect either purely earth-bound or space vehicles; and in particular, as they are affected by the trajectory the vehicles are designed to follow, or may find themselves upon due to some error of navigation. This is a self-set task and an ambitious one: but in truth it is an artful one, as it provides an excuse for me to leave the discussion of problems at a stage where their difficulties begin to defeat me.

Type
Astronautics and Guided flight Section
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society

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Footnotes

*

The tenth lecture given before the Astronautics and Guided Flight Section—on 22nd October 1959.

References

* The tenth lecture given before the Astronautics and Guided Flight Section—on 22nd October 1959.