A lifting body has been proposed as a candidate for the Assured Crew Return Vehicle which will serve as crew rescue vehicle for the Space Station. The focus of this work is on body surface definition, surface and volume grid definition, and the computation of inviscid flowfields about the vehicle at wind-tunnel conditions. Very good agreement is shown between the computed aerodynamic characteristics of the vehicle at a freestream Mach number of 10 and those measured in wind-tunnel tests.


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    Title :

    Assured Crew Return Vehicle flowfield and aerodynamic characteristics


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    Publication date :

    1990-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    No indication


    Language :

    English


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