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Ballistic reentry vehicles, capsules and planetary probes are the fastest human designed objects to fly through planet’s atmospheres. With velocities over Mach 20, RV’s have to dissipate a huge kinetic energy, and environment may exceed 100 g’s at center of mass, 100 bars stagnation pressure and 100 MW/m² on nosetip. Design of thermal protection system is a formidable material engineering problem. Vehicle conception covers large discipline realms, among which Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics are essential as they only can provide necessary aeroshell shape, mass and inertia properties and tolerances to achieve adequate environment and trajectory performance. Capsules and probes have different missions and entry conditions but approaches and methods are identical. Based on a long engineering experience, this book offers a comprehensive and state of the art analysis of aerodynamic and flight mechanic entry topics. In addition, it provides a large set of application exercises and solutions. It is addressed to university and engineering school students, as well as engineers in aerospace companies and government agencies, or simply curious readers.

Ballistic missiles --- Space vehicles --- Atmospheric entry. --- Atmospheric entry problems --- Entry into planetary atmospheres --- Re-entry problems (Astronautics) --- Aerodynamic heating --- Aerodynamics --- Astronautics --- Space trajectories --- Atmospheric re-entry (from space) --- Ballistic missile re-entry --- Re-entry aerodynamics --- Re-entry trajectories --- Aerothermodynamics --- Atmospheric entry --- Thermodynamics --- Astronautics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Vibration. --- Engineering. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Mathematical and Computational Engineering. --- Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control. --- Automotive Engineering. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Cycles --- Mechanics --- Sound --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Mathematics --- Aerospace engineering. --- Applied mathematics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Dynamics. --- Automotive engineering. --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Physics --- Statics --- Aeronautical engineering