Skip to Main Content
Manned Spacecraft Design Principles
book

Manned Spacecraft Design Principles

by Pasquale M. Sforza
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
647 pages
21h 38m
English
Butterworth-Heinemann
Content preview from Manned Spacecraft Design Principles
image
Figure 6.45 Approximate lift and drag characteristics for the Space Shuttle Orbiter in hypersonic flight (M>5).

However, we may use the STS-5 trajectory results to assess the behavior of numerical solutions to the equations developed thus far. In Figure 6.46, the nominal velocity history for STS-5 shown in Figure 6.41 is compared to numerical solutions of Eqns (6.34)(6.36) for the simple case in which constant lift and drag coefficients are assumed to exist throughout the flight. Using a nominal mass m=90,000 kg, a reference area S=250 m2, and a drag coefficient CD=0.86 yields a normalized B′=mgE/CDS=0.0406 atm which corresponds to flight at ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Safety Design for Space Systems

Safety Design for Space Systems

Gary Eugene Musgrave, Axel Larsen, Tommaso Sgobba
Safety Design for Space Operations

Safety Design for Space Operations

Firooz Allahdadi, Isabelle Rongier, Paul Wilde, Tommaso Sgobba
Space Safety Regulations and Standards

Space Safety Regulations and Standards

Joseph N. Pelton, Ram Jakhu

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780124199767