ID those Aeroassist Vehicle Concepts

[hesham]

Can you ID those Aeroassist Vehicle Concepts ?;


http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19840017694_1984017694.pdf

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

The bottom-most pic in Jpg.1 is an aerobraking ballute.

The top pic in Jpg.3 is a bi-conic. The bottom of Jpg.3 is the Air-Launched Sortie Vehicle.

You know, I vaguely remember seeing some of the ballute and biconic in an old Popular Science I used to have as a kid back in the 80's. And we have the Pop Mech article for ALSV on here.

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Moonbat.

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

Hey Hesh,

I found the article. Hope you like it. Unfortunately I'm not sure how to extract it, maybe you can do something with that. So here's the link:

http://books.google.com/books?id=PETCVTz_lwUC&dq=silver+bagel+and+flying+carrot+++Oct+1983&jtp=110

 

[hesham]

Great find Moonbat.

 

[archipeppe]

All those images come straight from mid '80s, as follows my thought about them:




1) The third vehicle of the Low L/D (a) is an OTV proposal using inflatable heat-shield


2) The Medium L/D (b) is a biconic quite similiar to the Carter Emmart's Mars Study of 1986 (The Case for Mars Conference)


3) The second vehicle of the High L(D (c) is for sure a the Sortie Vehicle.

 

[hesham]

Thank you dear Archipeppe.

 

[bigvlada]

Hey Hesh,

I found the article. Hope you like it. Unfortunately I'm not sure how to extract it, maybe you can do something with that. So here's the link:

http://books.google.com/books?id=PETCVTz_lwUC&dq=silver+bagel+and+flying+carrot+++Oct+1983&jtp=110

I've scrolled the article page by page and got images in my Opera cache. Should work for other browsers too.