Marshall Space Flight Center’s Test Stand 115 (TS115) is a propulsion component test facility in operation since its original activation in 1964 for testing small to medium size liquid rocket engine components including injectors, channel-cooled chambers, nozzles, passively-cooled metallic and composite nozzle extensions, valves, turbomachinery, and igniters. TS115 is a "blowdown" type facility, using high pressure tankage and components to provide liquid, gaseous, and cryogenic fluid delivery at specified pressures and flowrates. The facility consists of an open steel test stand structure, a mechanical hardware preparation shop, an electrical support equipment building, a control room, and a centralized data system room. In general, the facility infrastructure is rated to 3,000 psig. TS115 can accommodate thrust levels up to 10,000 lbf in the horizontal position. The facility is actively used for various internal NASA test programs as well as test campaigns for external customers from other government agencies, commercial industry partners, and academia. The available fluid systems, electrical power and instrumentation capabilities, facility controls and data acquisition systems, test program support capabilities, and available test rig configurations for external customer use are discussed in this paper.


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    Title :

    Propulsion Component Test Capabilities at MSFC’s Test Stand 115


    Contributors:
    Tal Wammen (author) / Paul Gradl (author)

    Conference:

    2020 AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum ; 2020 ; Virtual, US


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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