Test procedures, history, and plotted coefficient data are presented for an aero-loads investigation on the updated configuration-5 space shuttle launch vehicle at Mach numbers from 0.600 to 1.205. Six-component vehicle forces and moments, base and sting-cavity pressures, elevon hinge moments, wing-root bending and torsion moments, and normal shear force data were obtained. Full simulation of updated vehicle protuberances and attach hardware was employed.
Results of Investigations Conducted in the LARC 8-Foot Transonic Pressure Tunnel Using the 0.010-Scale 72-OTS Model of the Space Shuttle Integrated Vehicle (IA93), Volume 2
1976
763 pages
Report
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English