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NASA Awards Hypersonic Development Contract
Ronkonkoma NY (SPX) Oct 13, 2005 NASA has announced that GASL has received a follow on contract for hypersonic propulsion development and testing to support the agency's Langley Research Center, Hypersonic Air Breathing Propulsion Branch, Hampton, Va. The contract has a maximum value of $15 million. The work under the contract provides for the operation and application of shock-heated and combustion-heated test facilities. It also provides for supporting equipment to conduct test and evaluation of hypersonic aero-propulsion flow path research at conditions that duplicate flight across the atmosphere from static sea level to near orbital. Specifically, as part of this activity, is the operation and management of the government-furnished Hypersonic Pulse Facility in either shock-expansion tunnel, or reflected shock tunnel configurations; the acquisition of facility and propulsion flow path data and the application of data processing tools to provide well defined test conditions and performance of test articles. The contract also calls for the conduct of hypervelocity aerodynamic and aero-thermodynamic research in a shock-heated tunnel at test gas flows up to Mach 20 simulation; the design and manufacture of research test hardware consisting of specialized aero-propulsion test facility components and engine flow path components. The research will be primarily conducted at GASL facilities in Ronkonkoma. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Rocket Science News at Space-Travel.Com
Successful First Test For Vega's Zefiro 9 Engine
Paris, France(ESA) Dec 28, 2005Flames, smoke and a deafening noise accompanied the first firing test of Vega's Zefiro 9 third-stage solid rocket motor. A first examination of the data indicates that everything went well at the test carried out yesterday at Salto de Quirra in southeast Sardinia. |
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