The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, has investigated various concepts of next generation reusable space transportation systems. Lifting-body re-entry vehicle is one of the most promising concepts among them. This type vehicle has no wings and derives its life solely from the shape of its body. Therefore it has the advantages of reduced structural weight, superior volumetric efficiency, and better characteristics against aerodynamic heating at hypersonic speed. On the other hand, the disadvantages of its low lift-drag ratio, poor stability and controllability at low speed make it more difficult to land on a conventional runway than in the case of a winged vehicle like in the Automatic Landing Flight Experiment (ALFLEX), which was conducted in 1996. The Lifting-body Flight Experiment (LIFLEX), a light experiment using small low-cost vehicle, was planned to accumulate the knowledge and skills for automatic landing technology, which is one of the largest technology handles to realize a lifting body re-entry system. This report describes the online of the experiment flight plan and the experiment system and the process of development in some detail, including several ground tests and constrained flight test using a helicopter.


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    Uchū-Kōkū-Kenkyū-Kaihatsu-Kikō | TIBKAT | 2003-2005 ; damit Erscheinen eingestellt


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