Synopsis
IRVE-3 is part of NASA’s Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) Project, which aims to provide the agency with a less-expensive and modular means to return space capsules--those carrying cargo from the International Space Station, for instance--to Earth safely despite the high forces and temperatures that act on them during reentry. Doing so could make travel to and from earth orbit far more economical while also providing a tested and certified platform that could be readily adapted to various spacecraft to ensure safe reentry.
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Details
- Running time
- 24 minutes
- Collection
- NASA
- Internet Archive item
- NasaX_program3
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- NASA X
- IRVE 3
- space
- entry
- mars
- Wallops