Aerothermal Tests of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Instrumentation Islands at Mach Numbers 1.75 to 10.

Abstract

The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Instrumentation Islands were tested at Mach numbers 1.75, 2.25, 3, and 10 for Reynolds numbers ranging from .600000 to 4740,000 per foot to evaluate potential error sources which might influence the flight test data. The test specimens were instrumented with flight tranducers and with VKF transducers as reference standard. They were mounted on a wedge and tested at wedge angles ranging from 3 to 25 deg. In addition, for the Mach number 10 tests, the VKF infrared system was used to monitor the surface temperature of the test specimens. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA094278

Entities

People

  • D. W. Stallings
  • M. O. King

Organizations

  • Arnold Engineering Development Complex

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Booster Rocket Engines
  • Boundary Layer
  • Cameras
  • Data Reduction
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Free Stream
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Motion Picture Cameras
  • Photographs
  • Surface Temperature
  • Test Facilities
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster