A four month feasibility study of a hypersonic real-gas free flight test facility for NASA Langley Research Center (LARC) was performed. The feasibility of using a high-energy electromagnetic launcher (EML) to accelerate complex models (lifting and nonlifting) in the hypersonic, real-gas facility was examined. Issues addressed include: design and performance of the accelerator; design and performance of the power supply; design and operation of the sabot and payload during acceleration and separation; effects of high current, magnetic fields, temperature, and stress on the sabot and payload; and survivability of payload instrumentation during acceleration, flight, and soft catch.
Feasibility Study of a Hypersonic Real-Gas Facility
1987
154 pages
Report
No indication
English
Laboratory & Test Facility Design & Operation , Test Facilities & Equipment , Guns , Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Electromechanics , Hypervelocity launchers , Railgun accelerators , Sabot projectiles , Structural design , Systems analysis , Design analysis , Electromagnetism , Magnetic effects , Payloads , Stress analysis , Temperature effects
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