International Journal of Aerospace Engineering • Vol 2019
Similarity Design Method of the Inflatable Buffer Landing System
November 2019 • Cheng He, Huan He, Tao Wang
The inflatable buffer landing system, such as the airbag, has been widely used for deep space exploration as a low-cost entry. The impact performance of an airbag landing attenuation system on Mars had to be proven through cushion testing on Earth. In this paper, a design method for the airbag landing attenuation system on Earth is proposed based on similarity relation. With this method, the impact response of the spherical airbag landing attenuation system is derived based on assumptions, and the principal factor…