The Hyper-X Program, NASA's focused hypersonic technology program jointly run by NASA Langley and Dryden, is designed to move hypersonic, air-breathing vehicle technology from the laboratory environment to the flight environment, the last stage preceding prototype development. The Hyper-X research vehicle will provide the first ever opportunity to obtain data on an airframe integrated supersonic combustion ramjet propulsion system in flight, providing the first flight validation of wind tunnel, numerical and analytical methods used for design of these vehicles. A substantial portion of the integrated vehicle/engine flowpath development, engine systems verification and validation and flight test risk reduction efforts are experimentally based, including vehicle aeropropulsive force and moment database generation for flight control law development, and integrated vehicle/engine performance validation. The Mach 7 engine flowpath development tests have been completed, and effort is now shifting to engine controls, systems and performance verification and validation tests, as well as, additional flight test risk reduction tests.
Hyper-X Engine Design and Ground Test
2004
18 pages
Report
No indication
English
Jet & Gas Turbine Engines , Space Technology , Hypersonic test vehicles , Research program , Computational fluid dynamics , Supersonic combustion ramjet engines , Flight tests , Engine design , Hypersonic speed , Wind tunnel tests , Spacecraft propulsion , Spacecraft launching , Test facilities , Airframe , NASA programs
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