During series of Nike-Tomahawk sounding rocket flights, large extra-atmospheric coning angles were observed which were not predicted by preflight calculations; probable causes were concluded to be Magnus forces, aeroelastic bending, and/or lee-side boundary-layer separation; report of investigation of aeroelastic behavior of missile, analysis made, and equations of motions are presented; additional bending is attributed to opening of payload separation joint caused by rapid aerodynamic heating and sudden loss of acceleration at second-stage burnout.


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    Title :

    Calculated aeroelastic bending of sounding rocket based on flight data


    Additional title:

    J Spacecraft Rockets


    Contributors:
    Reis, G.E. (author) / Sundberg, W.D. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1967


    Size :

    6 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English