ABSTRACT |
The National Aerospace Laboratory and the National Space Development Agency of Japan are collaborationg in the development of an unmanned space re-entry system called HOPE which is planned for launch by an H-II rocket.At the preliminary stage of this project,research on the automatic landind using a dynamically scaled mntrol system,and the evaluation method for the flight experiments using a subscale model.The 37% scaled ALFEX vehicle is lifted by a carrier helicopter up to a height of 1,500m and is released at a level speed of 46m/s.Then,relying upon an integrated guidance system,it captures the specified glide slope and lands horizontally on a 1,000m long runway after flaring to shallower glide slopes.The present paper describes the results of the ALFLEX system design as of the Preliminary Design. |