The goal of the NASA Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) technology program is to mature and demonstrate essential, cost effective technologies for next generation launch systems. The X-33 flight vehicle presently being developed by Lockheed Martin is an experimental Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) demonstrator that seeks to validate critical technologies and insure applicability to a full scale RLV. As with the design of any hypersonic vehicle, the aeroheating environment is an important issue and one of the key technologies being demonstrated on X-33 is an advanced metallic Thermal Protection System (TPS). As part of the development of this TPS system, the X-33 aeroheating environment is being defined through conceptual analysis, ground based testing, and computational fluid dynamics. This report provides an overview of the hypersonic aeroheating wind tunnel program conducted at the NASA Langley Research Center in support of the ground based testing activities.


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    Title :

    X-33 Experimental Aeroheating at Mach 6 Using Phosphor Thermography


    Contributors:
    T. J. Horvath (author) / S. A. Berry (author) / B. R. Hollis (author) / D. S. Liechty (author) / H. H. Hamilton (author)

    Publication date :

    1999


    Size :

    22 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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