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Flight-simulated launch-pad-abort-to-landing maneuvers for a lifting body
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Jackson, E. Bruce Rivers, Robert A. |
| Copyright Year | 1998 |
| Description | The results of an in-flight investigation of the feasibility of conducting a successful landing following a launch-pad abort of a vertically-launched lifting body are presented. The study attempted to duplicate the abort-to-land-ing trajectory from the point of apogee through final flare and included the steep glide and a required high-speed, low-altitude turn to the runway heading. The steep glide was flown by reference to ground-provided guidance. The low-altitude turn was flown visually with a reduced field- of-view duplicating that of the simulated lifting body. Results from the in-flight experiment are shown to agree with ground-based simulation results; however, these tests should not be regarded as a definitive due to performance and control law dissimilarities between the two vehicles. |
| File Size | 1110299 |
| Page Count | 8 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20040090517 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t11p31j1g |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1998-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Ground Support Systems And Facilities (space) Flight Tests Aircraft Landing Runways Lifting Bodies Liftoff Launching Reentry Vehicles Radar Tracking In-flight Simulation Field of View Maneuvers T-38 Aircraft Supersonic Speed Low Altitude Launching Pads Control Theory Abort Trajectories Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
