| Autor: |
David Geyer, Robert A. Rivers, W. A. Ragsdale, Rajiv S. Chowdhry, E. B. Jackson |
| Rok vydání: |
1993 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Flight Simulation and Technologies. |
| Popis: |
The capability of the HL-20 lifting body spacecraft to perform an abort maneuver from the launch pad to a horizontal landing was studied at NASA Langley Research Center. This study involved both piloted and batch simulation models of the vehicle. A point-mass model of the vehicle was used for trajectory optimization studies. The piloted simulation was performed in the Visual Motion Simulator in fixed-base mode. A candidate maneuver was developed and refined for the worst-case launch-pad-to-landing-site geometry using an iterative procedure of off-line maneuver analysis followed by piloted evaluations and heuristic improvements to the candidate maneuver. The resulting maneuver demonstrates the launch site abort capability of the HL-20 and dictates requirements for nominal abort motor performance. The sensitivity of the maneuver to variations in several design parameters was documented. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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