NASA has begun to study candidate vehicles for manned access to space in support of the Space Station or other future missions requiring on-demand transportation of people to and from earth orbit. One such system, which would be used to complement the present Shuttle or an upgraded version, is the Personnel Launch System (PLS), which is envisioned as a reusable priority vehicle to place people and small payloads into orbit using an experimental launch vehicle. The design of the PLS is based on a Space Station crew changeout requirement whereby eight passengers and two crew members are flown to the station and a like number are returned within a 72 hour mission duration. Experimental and computational aerothermodynamic heating studies have been conducted using a new two-color thermographic technique that involved coating the model with a phosphor that radiates at varying color intensities as a function of temperature when illuminated with UV light. A full-scale model, the HL-20, has been produced and will be used for man-machine research. Three launch vehicle concepts are being considered, a Titan IV, the Advanced Launch System, and a Shuttle equipped with liquid rocket boosters.


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    Titel :

    The Personnel Launch System


    Beteiligte:

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1990-11-01



    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Personnel Launch System definition

    Piland, William M. / Talay, Theodore A. / Stone, Howard W. | NTRS | 1990



    Personnel Launch System (PLS) study

    Ehrlich, Carl F., Jr. | NTRS | 1991


    Concepts for a personnel launch system

    PETRO, ANDREW | AIAA | 1992


    The HL-20 Personnel Launch System

    Talay, Theodore A. | NTRS | 1992