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Integrated system test approaches for the nasa ares i crew launch vehicle (Document No: 20080013437)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Davis, Stephan Cockrell Jr., Charles E. Taylor, Terry L. Askins, Bruce R. Holladay, Jon B. Roberts, Ryan E. Taylor, James L. Robinson, Kimberly F. Tuma, Margaret Bland, Jeffrey |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Description | The Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV) is being developed by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide crew access to the International Space Station (ISS) and, together with the Ares V Cargo Launch Vehicle (CaLV), serves as one component of a future launch capability for human exploration of the Moon. During the system requirements definition process and early design cycles, NASA defined and began implementing plans for integrated ground and flight testing necessary to achieve the first human launch of Ares I. The individual Ares I flight hardware elements: the first stage five segment booster (FSB), upper stage, and J-2X upper stage engine, will undergo extensive development, qualification, and certification testing prior to flight. Key integrated system tests include the Main Propulsion Test Article (MPTA), acceptance tests of the integrated upper stage and upper stage engine assembly, a full-scale integrated vehicle dynamic test (IVDT), aerodynamic testing to characterize vehicle performance, and integrated testing of the avionics and software components. The Ares I-X development flight test will provide flight data to validate engineering models for aerodynamic performance, stage separation, structural dynamic performance, and control system functionality. The Ares I-Y flight test will validate ascent performance of the first stage, stage separation functionality, and a highaltitude actuation of the launch abort system (LAS) following separation. The Orion-1 flight test will be conducted as a full, un-crewed, operational flight test through the entire ascent flight profile prior to the first crewed launch. |
| File Size | 1178155 |
| Page Count | 9 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20080013437 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t0dv6hh5r |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2007-09-24 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Launch Vehicles And Launch Operations Flight Tests Nasa Programs Performance Tests Computational Fluid Dynamics Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation Transonic Wind Tunnels Ares 5 Cargo Launch Vehicle Flight Paths Ares 1 Launch Vehicle Systems Integration Avionics Space Shuttle Boosters Commercial Off-the-shelf Products Stage Separation Spacecrews Dynamic Tests International Space Station Wind Tunnel Tests 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 |
