Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of acronyms and abbreviations
- PART I Engineering issues specific to entry probes, landers or penetrators
- 1 Mission goals and system engineering
- 2 Accommodation, launch, cruise and arrival from orbit or interplanetary trajectory
- 3 Entering atmospheres
- 4 Descent through an atmosphere
- 5 Descent to an airless body
- 6 Planetary balloons, aircraft, submarines and cryobots
- 7 Arrival at a surface
- 8 Thermal control of landers and entry probes
- 9 Power systems
- 10 Communication and tracking of entry probes
- 11 Radiation environment
- 12 Surface activities: arms, drills, moles and mobility
- 13 Structures
- 14 Contamination of spacecraft and planets
- PART II Previous atmosphere/surface vehicles and their payloads
- PART III Case studies
- Appendix Some key parameters for bodies in the Solar System
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
6 - Planetary balloons, aircraft, submarines and cryobots
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of acronyms and abbreviations
- PART I Engineering issues specific to entry probes, landers or penetrators
- 1 Mission goals and system engineering
- 2 Accommodation, launch, cruise and arrival from orbit or interplanetary trajectory
- 3 Entering atmospheres
- 4 Descent through an atmosphere
- 5 Descent to an airless body
- 6 Planetary balloons, aircraft, submarines and cryobots
- 7 Arrival at a surface
- 8 Thermal control of landers and entry probes
- 9 Power systems
- 10 Communication and tracking of entry probes
- 11 Radiation environment
- 12 Surface activities: arms, drills, moles and mobility
- 13 Structures
- 14 Contamination of spacecraft and planets
- PART II Previous atmosphere/surface vehicles and their payloads
- PART III Case studies
- Appendix Some key parameters for bodies in the Solar System
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
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- Planetary Landers and Entry Probes , pp. 56 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007