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BLT Flight Experiment Overview and In-Situ MeasurementsIn support of the Boundary Layer Transition Flight Experiment (BLT FE) Project, a manufactured protuberance tile was installed on the port wing of Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery for the flight of STS-119. Additional instrumentation was also installed in order to obtain more spatially resolved measurements. This paper will provide an overview of the BLT FE Project, including the project history, organizations involved, and motivations for the flight experiment. Significant efforts were made to place the protuberance at an appropriate location on the Orbiter and to design the protuberance to withstand the expected environments. Efforts were also extended to understand the as-fabricated shape of the protuberance and the thermal protection system tile configuration surrounding the protuberance. A high level overview of the in-situ flight data will be presented, along with a summary of the comparisons between pre- and post-flight analysis predictions and flight data.
Document ID
20090026447
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Anderson, Brian P.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Campbell, Charles H.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Saucedo, Luis A.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Kinder, Gerald R.
(Boeing Co. Huntington Beach, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2010
Subject Category
Aircraft Design, Testing And Performance
Report/Patent Number
JSC-CN-18486
Meeting Information
Meeting: 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
Location: Orlando, FL
Country: United States
Start Date: January 4, 2010
End Date: January 7, 2010
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 377816.06.02.05.03.05.04
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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