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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.advisor | Miles, Richard | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ellis, Joshua Thomas | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-09T16:29:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-09T16:29:23Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2015-04-30 | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015-07-09 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01pc289m39x | - |
dc.description.abstract | Presented here is a novel design for an air-launched rocket concept based on the results of simulations aimed at determining the performance and loading of various air-launch configurations that allow an unmodified ground-launched rocket to inte-grate into an air-launch architecture. Simulations were performed using a 6-DOF MATLAB program and the Program to Optimize Simulated Trajectories, which took input aerodynamic data generated in Missile DATCOM, propulsion characteristics, and mass properties for a representative small-payload capacity rocket. Studies were conducted to compare the payload performance and loading of this rocket in various air-launch conditions to its performance and loading in a ground-launch condition. Results showed that current approaches with air-launch configurations subject rock-ets to higher loading than they experience in ground-launch conditions. This led to studies simulating air-launch with the aid of a parachute cluster because of its demonstrated feasibility in air-launching Minuteman I missiles. Using the cluster, the air-launched rocket experienced 40% less loading than the ground-launch case as well as a 20% payload mass increase. A design to realize this air-launch configuration was then developed, using Stratolaunch’s M351 as the example carrier aircraft. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 76 pages | * |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.title | SOAR: Simplified Orientation for Air-Launching Rockets | en_US |
dc.type | Princeton University Senior Theses | - |
pu.date.classyear | 2015 | en_US |
pu.department | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | en_US |
pu.pdf.coverpage | SeniorThesisCoverPage | - |
Appears in Collections: | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 1924-2019 |
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