Nickolai Charczenko
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 88
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An investigation was made to determine the drag and stability characteristics of the various decelerators when towed in the wake of several space-vehicle configurations at Mach numbers from 1.57 to 4.65. The following parameters were varied: Reynolds number, trailling distance, ratio of deceleration base diameter to space-vehicle base diameter, cone angle, and size of disk added to the base of a cone.