Radiometer experiment for the aeroassist flight experiment
Abstract
A forthcoming NASA flight experiment is described that provides an opportunity to obtain a large base of radiometric data for high-altitude, high-velocity thermochemically nonequilibrated-flow conditions. As a preliminary to the design of a radiometer for this experiment, an approximate method for predicting both equilibrium and nonequilibrium radiative surface fluxes is described. Spectral results for one trajectory state, a velocity of 10 km/sec at an altitude of 85 km, are presented. These results are then used to develop some of the instrument parameters that will be needed for designing of the three genre of radiometers that are proposed for this experiment.
- Publication:
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AIAA, 20th Thermophysics Conference
- Pub Date:
- June 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985thph.confR....D
- Keywords:
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- Aeroassist;
- Aerothermodynamics;
- Flight Tests;
- Orbit Transfer Vehicles;
- Radiometers;
- Thermal Protection;
- Atmospheric Entry;
- Heat Shielding;
- Radiant Heating;
- Space Shuttle Payloads;
- Spaceborne Experiments;
- Spacecraft Design;
- Spacecraft Shielding;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer