The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully unfurled a sail aboard a used cubesat to help drag the spacecraft down into Earth's atmosphere and out of orbit. The Drag Augmentation Deorbiting ...
A Drag Reduction System, or DRS, is the name for the Formula 1 system but it applies to most movable wing systems. The wing ...
Pore-scale mechanisms of drag reduction by micro-blowing have rarely been explored. A direct numerical simulation (DNS) study, published in the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, is performed to uncover ...
The Drag Augmentation Deorbiting System is a 38-square-foot sail that's designed to deorbit satellites at the end of their lives—and it appears to work. Reading time 2 minutes There’s a lot of junk ...
The Drag Augmentation Deorbiting System Nano (ADEO-N) – a 3.6-sq-m aluminium-coated polyamide membrane attached to four metallic booms – deployed from a 10 cm box aboard the ION Satellite Carrier.
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