Re-Entry F Turbulent Heat Experiment Familiarization Manual

This Familiarization Manual provides general information on the Re-entry F Turbulent Heating Experiment and Spacecraft. Detailed manuals and other reference documentation are listed in Table 4-2, Documentation and Data Index.

The Re-entry F Turbulent Heating Experiment is a basic research flight experiment for the Langley Research Center (LRC), of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The purpose of the experiment is to obtain measurements of fully turbulent convective heating and to determine the transition Reynolds number at conditions representative of advanced re-entry vehicles. The Spacecraft portion of the project is conducted under NASA Contract No. NAS 1-6039 by the General Electric Company, Missile and Space Division, Re-entry Systems Department. The launch of the Re-entry F Spacecraft is scheduled for January 1968. The contract start date was June 1966 and the completion date is February 1968.