MINI-IRENE is the Flight Demonstrator of IRENE, a new-concept capsule with a variable geometry, originally conceived by ASI to widen the range of available platforms to retrieve payloads and/or data from low Earth orbit. The main characteristics of IRENE is the “umbrella-like” deployable front structure that reduces the capsule ballistic coefficient, leading to acceptable heat fluxes, mechanical loads, stability and final descent velocity. This paper describes the roadmap of the IRENE concept, providing details concerning the heritage and past activities, together with the next qualifications tasks that will be performed in order to converge to the flight of MINI-IRENE.
Mini-IRENE: The First European Flight Experiment Of A Deployable Heat Shield / Vernillo, Paolo; Fedele, Alberto; Gardi, Roberto; Savino, Raffaele; Punzo, Francesco; Gunnar, Florin; Molina, Raphael. - (2017). (Intervento presentato al convegno 23rd ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research).
Mini-IRENE: The First European Flight Experiment Of A Deployable Heat Shield
Raffaele Savino;
2017
Abstract
MINI-IRENE is the Flight Demonstrator of IRENE, a new-concept capsule with a variable geometry, originally conceived by ASI to widen the range of available platforms to retrieve payloads and/or data from low Earth orbit. The main characteristics of IRENE is the “umbrella-like” deployable front structure that reduces the capsule ballistic coefficient, leading to acceptable heat fluxes, mechanical loads, stability and final descent velocity. This paper describes the roadmap of the IRENE concept, providing details concerning the heritage and past activities, together with the next qualifications tasks that will be performed in order to converge to the flight of MINI-IRENE.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
