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The Kentucky Re-Entry Universal Payload System (Krups): Sub-Orbital Flights, James Devin Sparks
The Kentucky Re-Entry Universal Payload System (Krups): Sub-Orbital Flights, James Devin Sparks
Theses and Dissertations--Mechanical Engineering
The Kentucky Re-entry Universal Payload System (KRUPS) is an adaptable testbed for atmosphere entry science experiments, with an initial application to thermal protection systems (TPS). Because of the uniqueness of atmospheric entry conditions that ground testing is unable to replicate, scientists principally rely on numerical models for predicting entry conditions. The KRUPS spacecraft, developed at the University of Kentucky, provides an inexpensive means of obtaining validation data to verify and improve these models.
To increase the technology readiness level (TRL) of the spacecraft, two sub-orbital missions were developed. The first mission, KUDOS, launched August 13th, 2017 on a Terrier-Improved Malamute …