The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has developed a design environment (IPAT) and approaches to assess the performance and operational capabilities of reusable launch systems in collaboration with the NASA and industry. This approach uses the AML design environment with parametric geometry modeling. This approach has been used successfully and resulted in the Rocket Boost-Back concept under development by AFRL and SMC under the FAST ground experiment program. The RMLS ...
A guidance and control (G\&C) design tool to rapidly assess the necessary control effort of a conceptual space access vehicle to track its flight trajectory is described. This tool can be used as part of the preliminary design cycle in configuration, trajectory planning, structural analysis, aerodynamic modeling, and control surface sizing. Given a conceptual configuration for a space access vehicle and a desired trajectory for a reentry flight, this G\&C ...
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