SPACE SHUTTLE VEHICLE ROCKET PLUME IMPINGEMENT STUDY FOR SEPARATION ANALYSIS TASKS Ⅱ and Ⅲ DEFINITION AND PRELIMINARY PLUME IMPINGEMENT ANALYSIS FOR THE MSC BOOSTER

摘要

This document presents the results of a space shuttle plume impingement study for the Manned Spacecraft Center configuration. This study was conducted as two tasks which were to: (1) define the orbiter main stage engine exhaust plume flow field, and (2) define the plume impingement heating, force and resulting moment environments on the booster during the staging maneu¬ver. To adequately define these environments during the staging maneuver and allow for deviation from the nominal separation trajectory, a multitude of relative orbiter/booster positions are analyzed which map the region that con¬tains the separation trajectories. The data presented in this report can be used to determine a separation trajectory which will result in acceptable im¬pingement heating rates, forces, and the resulting moments. The data, pre¬sented in graphical form, include the effect of roll, pitch and yaw maneuvers for the booster.