Orbiter entry trajectory corridors: 32000 pound payload, 67.5 percent center of gravity
Abstract
Thermal and equilibrium glide boundaries were used to analyze and/or design shuttle orbiter entry trajectories. Plots are presented of orbiter thermal and equilibrium glide boundaries in the drag/mass-relative velocity dynamic pressure-relative velocity, and altitude-relative velocity planes for an orbiter having a 32,000 pound payload and a 67.5% center of gravity location. These boundaries were defined for control points 1 through 4 of the shuttle orbiter for 40 deg-30 deg and 38 deg-28 deg ramped angle of attack entry profiles and 40 deg, 38 deg, 35 deg, 30 deg, 28 deg, and 25 deg constant angle of attack entry profiles each at 20 deg, 15 deg, and 10 deg constant body flap settings.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- July 1975
- Bibcode:
- 1975STIN...7633234T
- Keywords:
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- Glide Paths;
- Payloads;
- Space Shuttle Orbiters;
- Tables (Data);
- Trajectory Analysis;
- Aerodynamic Drag;
- Angle Of Attack;
- Flaps (Control Surfaces);
- Pressure Effects;
- Reentry Effects;
- Astrodynamics