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Aerospace, Volume 9, Issue 7

July 2022 - 63 articles

Cover Story: Venusian clouds are conjectured to be a possible habitat for life. We propose a mission to explore the clouds of Venus to evaluate their habitability and to search for signs of life. The spacecraft would launch from Earth with an orbiter and a probe carrying an aerobot. A super-pressure balloon would cycle at altitudes between 48 and 60 km using a combination of ballast drop, gas venting, and the thermal effects of the environment. The gondola design is derived from the Pioneer Venus Large Probe pressure vessel. The aerobot would transmit data via orbiter relay combined with a direct-to-Earth link. The proposed mission could help to elucidate the limits of habitability and the role of unknown chemistry or the possibly life itself in the atmosphere of Venus. View this paper
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Articles (63)

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,684 Views
15 Pages

Flight Departure Time Prediction Based on Deep Learning

  • Hang Zhou,
  • Weicong Li,
  • Ziqi Jiang,
  • Fanger Cai and
  • Yuting Xue

Accurate flight departure time prediction enables the rational use of airport support resources, aprons, and runway resources, and promotes the implementation of collaborative decision-making. In order to accurately predict the flight departure time,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,377 Views
29 Pages

Despite offering often significant advantages with respect to other flying machines, especially in terms of flight endurance, airships are typically harder to control. Technological solutions borrowed from the realm of shipbuilding, such as bow thrus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,863 Views
25 Pages

Reliability estimation for key components of a mechanical system is of great importance in prognosis and health management in aviation industry. Both degradation data and failure time data contain abundant reliability information from different sourc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,102 Views
14 Pages

A multiple-airport system (MAS) consists of more than two airports in a metropolitan area under a large block of terminal airspace that is managed by one or two air traffic control units. When the capacity of an airport or of the terminal airspace dr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,292 Views
17 Pages

Planetary rovers play a critical role in space exploration missions, where one of the most fundamental algorithms is pose determination. Due to environmental and computational constraints, real-time pose determinations of planetary rovers can only us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,036 Views
20 Pages

Airport management plays a key role in the air traffic system. Introducing resources at the right time can minimize the effects of disruptions, reduce delays, and save costs as well as optimize the carbon footprint of the airport. Efficient decision-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,593 Views
18 Pages

Accurately identifying the peak value of impact load acting on the helicopter structure during weapon launch is of great significance to the design and finalization of weapon pylons. Firstly, a method of standardized preprocessing load signal is prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,653 Views
15 Pages

As the key mechanism of attitude control of micro/nano-satellites, the flywheel design is mostly based on empirical formulae that do not meet the requirements of lightweight and high-performance micro/nano-satellite platforms. In this paper, the stru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,770 Views
20 Pages

Variable diameter rotor can improve the flight performance of the aircraft both in hovering and forward flying and a duct can improve the rotor performance further both in force and efficiency. In previous studies, those two parts are always studied...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
30 Citations
13,638 Views
9 Pages

Venus Life Finder Missions Motivation and Summary

  • Sara Seager,
  • Janusz J. Petkowski,
  • Christopher E. Carr,
  • David H. Grinspoon,
  • Bethany L. Ehlmann,
  • Sarag J. Saikia,
  • Rachana Agrawal,
  • Weston P. Buchanan,
  • Monika U. Weber and
  • Richard French
  • + 4 authors

Finding evidence of extraterrestrial life would be one of the most profound scientific discoveries ever made, advancing humanity into a new epoch of cosmic awareness. The Venus Life Finder (VLF) missions feature a series of three direct atmospheric p...

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Aerospace - ISSN 2226-4310