Abstract Space-age technology makes it possible to travel faster than the speed of sound from one continent to another one or even to make suborbital flight as a space tourism. The existing technology challenge is to bring this innovative way of travel without damaging the environment to ensure human safety and to preserve environment balance. The sonic boom issue is one of the concerns when flying faster than sound. The issue must be taking into account at the stage of developing environmentally friendly high-speed vehicle. The next generation supersonic transport is fundamentally different from subsonic medium- and long-range aircraft in a breakthrough feature: it ensures a long-term supersonic cruise flight in the range of Mach numbers 1.6–1.8. For a successful implementation of the civil supersonic project at a new stage of technology development, it is necessary to solve a number of scientific and technical problems. In the present paper some of them are under discussion. In particular, the addressed issues are as follows: how to achieve a high level of aerodynamic efficiency at supersonic cruise along with low sonic boom; how to fit into low noise requirements at take-off and landing modes of supersonic aircraft with a moderate-bypass-ratio engine; how to implement a wing with high load factor and fuselage with long nose part to fit into required airframe structural stiffness, etc. Also, new technology approaches in multidisciplinary optimization task to achieve aircraft design goals of low drag, low boom and low noise characteristics are discussed. A few examples of optimal supersonic aircraft configurations along with passenger cabin are given. The paper was presented at the X-th IAA Symposium “Space Flight Safety” in St.-Petersburg on June 2023.

    Highlights Preliminary aerodynamic design,. Advanced supersonic transport,. Sonic boom,. Multifactor optimization,. Aerodynamic configuration.


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    Title :

    On ecologically-safe high-speed vehicles: Conceptual design study of the next generation supersonic transport


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    Published in:

    Acta Astronautica ; 216 ; 437-445


    Publication date :

    2023-11-24


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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