The National Aerospace Plane is a program conceived in 1986 by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to develop and demonstrate in flight, the technologies necessary for hypersonic flight including Single Stage To Orbit (SSTO) and cruise at sustained Mach numbers. In order to do this, a number of technologies, propulsion, structure aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and materials must be matured to the point that hypersonic flight is practical. The progress made in the critical areas of materials and structures, highlighting advances in propulsion and computational fluid dynamics, made possible by high materials such as titanium aluminides and carbon-carbon, is shown. An examination of the utility of hypersonic flight both in terms of an SSTO mission and the commercial potential for hypersonic flight is given.
Design Challenges for the National AERO-Space Plane
1991
5 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Manned Spacecraft , Aircraft , Aerospace planes , Hypersonic flight , National aerospace plane program , Single stage to orbit vehicles , Structural design , Dynamic structural analysis , Spacecraft construction materials , Spacecraft design , Computational fluid dynamics , Refractory materials , Research and development , Space commercialization
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