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Recent Upgrades for the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Cornelison, Charles J. Wiens, J. Perez, Alfredo J. |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Recent upgrades to the performance capabilities of the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range (AVGR) are presented. Upgrades include: the successful implementation of a fast-acting, gungases suppression valve to minimize target contamination and perturbations to both the target and ejecta; powder gun and light-gas gun operational parameter adjustments to provide clean, lowspeed test conditions; a liquid nitrogen-based system and methodology for chilling targets and/or other impact chamber situated equipment; and imaging system capabilities enhancements to enable observing 50 μm particles traveling at 2 km/s. Many of these performance improvements were motivated by AVGR customer requirements for very clean shot conditions at speeds below 1.9 km/s and to provide testing in support of proposed NASA missions to Enceladus and 16Psyche. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180007384.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
