The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Range Reference Atmosphere (RRA) is a statistical model that summarizes wind and thermodynamic atmospheric variability from surface to 70 km. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Space Shuttle program, which launches from KSC, utilizes the KSC RRA data to evaluate environmental constraints on various aspects of the vehicle during ascent. An update to the KSC RRA was recently completed. As part of the update, the Natural Environments Branch at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) conducted a validation study and a comparison analysis to the existing KSC RRA database version 1983. Assessments to the Space Shuttle vehicle ascent profile characteristics were performed by JSC/Ascent Flight Design Division to determine impacts of the updated model to the vehicle performance. Details on the model updates and the vehicle sensitivity analyses with the update model are presented.


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    Title :

    The 2006 Kennedy Space Center Range Reference Atmosphere Model Validation Study and Sensitivity Analysis to the Performance of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Shuttle Vehicle


    Contributors:
    Burns, Lee (author) / Decker, Ryan (author) / Harrington, Brian (author) / Merry, Carl (author)

    Conference:

    88th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 13th Conference on Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology ; 2008 ; New Orleans, LA, United States


    Publication date :

    2008-01-20


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English