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Ballutes may come in various shapes and sizes, depending on their intended purpose. The configurations which were most often studied in the recent decades are given in Fig. 4.1.

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Griebel, H. (2011). Ballute Spacecraft Configuration options. In: Reaching High Altitudes on Mars with an Inflatable Hypersonic Drag Balloon (Ballute). Vieweg+Teubner. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-9911-8_4

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