A totally reusable space shuttle configuration has been analyzed during ascent flight to determine its response to atmospheric turbulence. Responses in the form of booster and orbiter body accelerations and booster wing root shear, bending moment and turque were obtained due to random and quasi-square-wave discrete turbulence. The configuration was also analyzed with booster aerodynamic surfaces removed to simulate an expendable booster. Symmetric and antisymmetric analyses were performed. Propellant sloshing, gust penetration, and automatic control system effects were included. It was found that the symmetric responses were generally higher than the antisymmetric ones. The stability augmentation system tended to lower the booster accelerations in the symmetric case, while increasing the orbiter accelerations. (Author)


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    Titel :

    Space Shuttle Ascent Flight Turbulence Response


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1972


    Format / Umfang :

    76 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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