Aerodecelerator Performance of Flare-Type Membrane Inflatable Vehicle in Suborbital Reentry

A flight experiment of an inflatable reentry vehicle, equipped with a thin-membrane aeroshell deployed by an inflatable torus structure, was performed using a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency S-3...

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