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Entry, Descent and Landing Systems

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The process of delivering a payload from an interplanetary transfer trajectory or from a planetary orbit to a stationary position on the ground may generally be split into three phases: entry, descent, and landing.

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Lingard, S., Underwood, J. (2014). Entry, Descent and Landing Systems. In: Macdonald, M., Badescu, V. (eds) The International Handbook of Space Technology. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41101-4_18

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