Aircraft Dynamic Modes of a Winged Reusable Rocket Plane (Preprint)

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an effort to quantify the response times for the dynamic modes of a winged reusable rocket plane. The vehicle used in this effort was XCOR Aerospace's Lynx, which is being developed for the suborbital space tourism and microgravity payload market. The effort utilized CART3D and Missile Datcom to estimate the static and dynamic aerodynamics of the Lynx. These inputs were then feed into the "A" matrix of the state space version of the equations of motion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA594539

Entities

People

  • Barry M. Hellman
  • Brock P. Pleiman
  • Mark Street

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Aerodynamics
  • Aerospace Craft
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Mach Number
  • Military Research
  • Rocket Aircraft
  • Space Systems
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Space