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X-43a fluid and environmental systems: ground and flight operation and lessons learned
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Dowdell, David B. St John, Clinton W. Vachon, Michael Jacob Grindle, Thomas J. |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Description | The X-43A Hyper-X program demonstrated the first successful flights of an airframe integrated scramjet powered hypersonic vehicle. The X-43A vehicles established successive world records for jet-powered vehicles at speeds of Mach 7 and Mach 10. The X-43A vehicle is a subscale version of proposed hypersonic reconnaissance strike aircraft. Scaled down to a length of 12 ft (3.66 m), the lifting body design with high fineness ratio resulted in very small internal space available for fluid systems and their corresponding environmental conditioning systems. Safe testing and operation of the X-43A fluid and environmental systems was critical for mission success, not only for the safety of the flight crew in the NASA B-52B carrier aircraft, but also to maintain the reliability of vehicle systems while exposed to dynamics and hostile conditions encountered during the boost trajectory. The X-43A fluid and environmental systems successfully managed explosive, pyrophoric, inert, and very high pressure gases without incident. This report presents a summary of the checkout and flight validation of the X-43A fluid systems. The testing used for mission assurance is summarized. System performance during captive carry and launch flights is presented. The lessons learned are also discussed. |
| File Size | 10777983 |
| Page Count | 23 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20050182779 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t46q6xg0q |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2005-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Ground Support Systems And Facilities (space) Gases Pyrophoric Materials Airframes Reconnaissance Aircraft Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Engines Flight Operations Launching X-43 Vehicle Trajectories Safety Hypersonic Aircraft Fineness Ratio Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
