NASA's Aeroassist Flight Experiment (AFE) vehicle will be deployed from the Space Shuttle Orbiter in 1994 to make a data-gethering aeropass through the upper atmosphere before returning to orbit for Shuttle pickup. An axisymmetric, chemically-reacting viscous shock-layer code is presently used to calculate AFE heating rates which automatically accounts for the viscous-inviscid interaction and entropy layer-swallowing effects which are ignored by the conventional boundary-layer methods. Results are presented for the stagnation-point heating of the current AFE baseline trajectory.
Flight stagnation-point heating calculations on Aeroassist Flight Experiment vehicle
1991-02-01
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Aeroassist Flight Experiment (AFE)
NTIS | 1988
|The Aeroassist Flight Experiment
NTRS | 1987
|Aeroassist Flight Experiment (AFE)
NTRS | 1988
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