{"id":17219,"date":"2024-06-06T12:39:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/?p=17219"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:53:16","slug":"relative-navigation-implementation-for-the-in-air-capturing-of-a-winged-reusable-launch-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/relative-navigation-implementation-for-the-in-air-capturing-of-a-winged-reusable-launch-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Relative Navigation Implementation for the In-Air Capturing of a Winged Reusable Launch Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sunayna SINGH, Briek LUYTEN, Marco SAGLIANO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DOI Number: 10.82241\/ceas-hisst-2024-279<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conference number: HiSST-2024-279<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018In-Air Capturing (IAC)\u2019 return mode is an innovative launcher recovery method that has shown great potential for cost reduction compared to the currently operational reusable launch vehicles (RLVs). This approach, first proposed by DLR, involves capture of a winged rocket stage mid-air using an aircraft, which tows it back to the launch site. This eliminates the need for a supplementary propulsion system for landing and reduces the overall cost of recovery when compared to vertical landing recovery methods, which require significant amount of fuel during descent. For the IAC application, a need for multiple navigation devices have been identified. Both long-range and short-range navigation sensors are required to maintain the relative positions required for IAC. This paper will present the selection and modelling of the navigation solution for full-scale IAC scenario. Sensor integration and overall performance of the system will be studied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HiSST-2024-279.pdf\">Read the full paper here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Sunayna SINGH, Briek LUYTEN, Marco SAGLIANO<\/b><\/p>\n<p>DOI Number: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.82241\/ceas-hisst-2024-279<\/p>\n<p>Conference number: HiSST-2024-279<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[993,1408,1407],"tags":[1824,1823,1822,978],"class_list":["post-17219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-guidance-control-systems-11-hisst-2024","category-11-hisst-2024","tag-formation-flight","tag-in-air-capturing-2","tag-relative-navigation","tag-reusable-launch-vehicles","category-993","category-1408","category-1407","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21230,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions\/21230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}