The Shuttle Upper Atmosphere Mass Spectrometer (SUMS), a component experiment of the NASA Orbital Experiments Program (OEX), was flown aboard the shuttle Columbia (OV102) mounted at the forward end of the nose landing gear well with an atmospheric gas inlet system fitted to the lower fuselage (chin panel) surface. The SUMS was designed to provide atmospheric data in flow regimes inaccessible prior to the development of the Space Transportation System (STS). The experiment mission operation begins about 1 hour prior to shuttle de-orbit entry maneuver and continues until reaching 1.6 torr (about 86 km altitude). The SUMS flew a total of three missions, 61C, STS-35, STS-40. Between flights, the SUMS was maintained in flight ready status. The flight data has been analyzed by the NASA LaRC Aerothermodynamics Branch. Flight data spectrum plots and reports are presented in the Appendices to the Final Technical Report for NAS1-17399. This volume presents data from the reentry of flight STS-35 in tabular and graphical format.
Support Activities to Maintain Sums Flight Readiness, Volume 7. Attachment B: Flight STS-35 Report, Section E
1992
159 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Space Technology , Aeronomy , Atmospheric composition , Atmospheric entry , Mass spectrometers , Spacecraft instruments , Upper atmosphere , Postflight analysis , Rarefied gas dynamics , Spectra , Aerodynamics , Atmospheric chemistry , Postlaunch reports , Space shuttles , Space transportation system , Support systems