This paper provides an overview of stage separation activities for NASA's Hyper-X program; a focused hypersonic technology effort designed to move hypersonic, airbreathing vehicle technology from the laboratory environment to the flight environment. This paper presents an account of the development of the current stage separation concept, highlights of wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics investigations being conducted to define the separation event, results from ground tests of separation hardware, schedule and status. Substantial work has been completed toward reducing the risk associated with stage separation.


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    Title :

    Hyper-X Stage Separation: Background and Status


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    9th International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference ; 1999 ; Norfolk, VA, United States
    3rd Weakly Ionized Gases Workshop ; 1999 ; Norfolk, VA, United States


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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