Real World: 3-2-1 Testing!
Real World: 3-2-1 Testing!
NASA engineers used diameter, surface area, and drag forces to test their most recent inflatable concept. The Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment 3, or IRVE-3, provided a flight demonstration of inflatable technology. The successful flight test gave engineers new environmental data to improve existing models and simulations and design future inflatable vehicles.
Published on: October 22, 2012
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