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3D ray tracing solver for communication blackout analysis in atmospheric entry missions

Poedts, Stefaan; Giangaspero, Vincent F.; Sharma, Vatsalya +4 more

During the atmospheric entry phase at hypersonic speed, the radio communication from/to a space vehicle can be disrupted due to the formation of a plasma sheath within the surrounding flow field. In order to characterize such communication blackout phases, this work presents a numerical methodology combining Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simul…