Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP220102751

Funding Activity

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https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP220102751

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Dispersion of spacecraft components during re-entry. Destructive re-entry trajectories for used satellites are designed so debris remaining after re-entry falls harmlessly to the Earth. However, the dramatic increase in the mass of orbiting objects has outpaced improvements in predicting hazardous impact zones. This project aims to develop the experimental and theoretical methods needed to study separation of objects in hypersonic flow in order to better predict the dispersion of debris from re-entering space objects. New hypersonic wind tunnel experiments, modelling, and computational simulations will be performed to enhance our understanding and improve predictions of how spacecraft components are dispersed during re-entry.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 21-12-2022

End Date: 21-12-2025

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $551,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Aerospace Engineering | Hypersonic Propulsion and Hypersonic Aerodynamics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Space Transport |

Other Keywords

Aerospace Engineering | Hypersonic Propulsion and Hypersonic Aerodynamics | Space Transport

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