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  1. 🇩🇪 #ATMOS has few competitors, of which #VardaSpace and #InversionSpace both apply parachutes 🪂 for the final descent of their return capsules. #Phoenix doesn’t require parachutes due to its large surface area and low mass, allowing its shape to essentially act as a parachute. The ballistic coefficient is lower than #NASA’s #LOFTID demonstrator. The next Phoenix to launch will carry "green #propulsion; ethane and nitrous oxide” nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/at

    #AtmosphericEntry #Aerobraking #Reentry

  2. 🇩🇪 #ATMOS has few competitors, of which #VardaSpace and #InversionSpace both apply parachutes 🪂 for the final descent of their return capsules. #Phoenix doesn’t require parachutes due to its large surface area and low mass, allowing its shape to essentially act as a parachute. The ballistic coefficient is lower than #NASA’s #LOFTID demonstrator. The next Phoenix to launch will carry "green #propulsion; ethane and nitrous oxide” nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/at

    #AtmosphericEntry #Aerobraking #Reentry

  3. 🇩🇪 #ATMOS has few competitors, of which #VardaSpace and #InversionSpace both apply parachutes 🪂 for the final descent of their return capsules. #Phoenix doesn’t require parachutes due to its large surface area and low mass, allowing its shape to essentially act as a parachute. The ballistic coefficient is lower than #NASA’s #LOFTID demonstrator. The next Phoenix to launch will carry "green #propulsion; ethane and nitrous oxide” nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/at

    #AtmosphericEntry #Aerobraking #Reentry

  4. 🇩🇪 #ATMOS has few competitors, of which #VardaSpace and #InversionSpace both apply parachutes 🪂 for the final descent of their return capsules. #Phoenix doesn’t require parachutes due to its large surface area and low mass, allowing its shape to essentially act as a parachute. The ballistic coefficient is lower than #NASA’s #LOFTID demonstrator. The next Phoenix to launch will carry "green #propulsion; ethane and nitrous oxide” nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/at

    #AtmosphericEntry #Aerobraking #Reentry

  5. 🇩🇪 #ATMOS has few competitors, of which #VardaSpace and #InversionSpace both apply parachutes 🪂 for the final descent of their return capsules. #Phoenix doesn’t require parachutes due to its large surface area and low mass, allowing its shape to essentially act as a parachute. The ballistic coefficient is lower than #NASA’s #LOFTID demonstrator. The next Phoenix to launch will carry "green #propulsion; ethane and nitrous oxide” nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/at

    #AtmosphericEntry #Aerobraking #Reentry

  6. From Earth to #Mars lasts about 200 days. To safely go from those speeds down to zero in that short amount of time requires “slamming on the brakes”. Successful #aerobraking depends upon precise navigation, knowledge of weather, and a solid understanding of the forces the craft can withstand. science.nasa.gov/planetary-sci

    #navigation #automation #SpaceNavigation

  7. 🇮🇳 #Mangalyaan2 will perform a direct entry, meaning the descent stage will plunge straight into the atmosphere without first orbiting the planet. The landing sequence will begin with #aerobraking to slow the spacecraft using atmospheric drag. At an altitude of approximately 1.3 kilometres above the Martian surface, powered descent engines will ignite 🔥 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sc

    #Mars #MarsLander #India #ISRO

  8. For a trip to #Mars 🔴, decreasing travel time by 10% necessitates twice as much fuel, while cutting travel time in half requires ten times as much. May prove worthwhile when considering factors such as decreased exposure time to #radiation ☢️ for crewed 👩‍🚀 missions. Extra speed must be lost at Mars. Many Mars missions do this, taking about 6 6️⃣ to 7 months for transit to the Red Planet. marspedia.org/Hohmann_transfer

    #aerocapture #aerobraking #AtmosphericEntry

  9. #AMAT allows the user to simulate #atmospheric entry trajectories, compute deceleration and heating🌡️loads, compute aerocapture entry corridors and simulate aerocapture trajectories. AMAT supports analysis for all #atmosphere-bearing destinations in the #SolarSystem: #Venus, #Earth, #Mars, #Jupiter, #Saturn, #Titan, #Uranus, and #Neptune amat.readthedocs.io/en/master

    #aerocapture #aerobraking #AtmosphericEntry

  10. Parachute 🪂 is not the only means for descent, as high-mass class vehicles are emerging for human 👩‍🚀 missions. Shallow entry flight-path angles are preferred in order to achieve a lower terminal velocity to ensure a safe descent phase. Retro-propulsion could be activated at Mach 2 and above intechopen.com/chapters/72944#

    #aerocapture #aerobraking #AtmosphericEntry #Mars #Starship

  11. It makes sense to use the Martian #atmosphere to help with deceleration and save on propellant. youtube.com/watch?v=5seefpjMQJ This method has been tested and validated on Earth, using #SpaceX #Falcon9 first stages in the high atmosphere to simulate #Martian conditions marspedia.org/Landing_on_Mars#

    #Aerobraking #HumanSpaceflight

  12. As the #spacecraft approaches Mars 🔴, it will need to perform a capture burn 🔥 to slow down and be captured by Mars' gravity. This requires a delta-v of about 0.7 to 1.3 km/s to enter Mars' orbit or to land on the planet's surface. #Starship 🚀 will enter #Mars’ atmosphere at 7.7 km/sec and decelerate #aerodynamically uc.edu/content/dam/refresh/con

    #aerobraking

  13. By Giusy Falcone Dec 2021 gfalcon2.web.illinois.edu

    With a 6 m/s increase in the Delta-V budget, the deep reinforcement learning approach shortened the #aerobraking time by 68.3% 📉. The DRL algorithm does not encounter any thermal violations over 40 episodes compared to the 2.8 average thermal violations experienced by the state-of-the-art heuristic arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.202

  14. The time of travel to #Mars can be reduced from nine months ⏳ to about four months. This would reduce #radiation ☢️ doses by over 60% compared to the Hohmann transfer. This trajectory uses 4.62 km/s of deltaV. #SpaceX #Starship is designed for about 6 km/s of deltaV. The return velocity of #Apollo was about 11 km/s marspedia.org/Aerobraking

    #Aerobraking #HumanSpaceflight

  15. "Lunar Transportation System" service module (LTS/SM). From "Lunatics!", ep. 2 "From the Earth" and ep. 3 "To the Moon".

    The idea was "a big expensive machine built by aerospace contractors that does what the Space Shuttle (STS) did for low-earth orbit, but for getting to the Moon".

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    #LunaticsTV #SpaceCraft
    #Blender3D #NPR3D #AeroBraking #Moon

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