Ares I-X was the first flight test vehicle used in the development of NASA's Ares I crew launch vehicle. The Ares I-X used a 4-segment reusable solid rocket booster from the Space Shuttle heritage with mass simulators for the 5th segment, upper stage, crew module and launch abort system. Three modal tests were defined to verify the dynamic finite element model of the Ares I-X flight test vehicle. Test configurations included two partial stacks and the full Ares I-X flight test vehicle on the Mobile Launcher Platform. This report focuses on the first modal test that was performed on the top section of the vehicle referred to as Stack 5, which consisted of the spacecraft adapter, service module, crew module and launch abort system simulators. This report describes the test requirements, constraints, pre-test analysis, test operations and data analysis for the Ares I-X Stack 5 modal test.


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    Title :

    Ares I-X Flight Test Vehicle: Stack 5 Modal Test


    Contributors:
    R. D. Buehrle (author) / J. D. Templeton (author) / M. C. Reaves (author) / L. G. Horta (author) / J. L. Gaspar (author)

    Publication date :

    2010


    Size :

    62 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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