Mission Design and Performance Analysis of a Smallsat Aerocapture Flight Test

An Earth smallsat mission architecture is developed to demonstrate the feasibility of aerocapture. The mission concept proposes to transfer from a geosynchronous transfer orbit rideshare trajectory...

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