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Private Dream Chaser Crewed Mini-Shuttle Design Advances through Rigorous Wind Tunnel Tests
Scale model of the Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Dream Chaser is readied for wind tunnel testing at high speeds that simulate the conditions it will encounter during its flight through the atmosphere returning from space. Credit: NASA/David C. Bowen
The private Dream Chaser mini-shuttle being developed by Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) has successfully completed a series of rigorous wind tunnel tests on scale models of the spacecraft – thereby accomplishing another key development milestone under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to restore America’s human spaceflight access to low Earth orbit.
Engineers from SNC and NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia conducted six weeks of intricate testing with several different Dream Chaser scale model spacecraft to study its reaction to subsonic, transonic and supersonic conditions that will be encountered during ascent into space and re-entry from low-Earth orbit.(…)
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© Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Post tags: Atlas V rocket, boeing CST 100, cape canaveral, CCiCap, CCP, commercial crew program, dream chaser, kennedy space center, NASA, Sierra Nevada, SNC, space taxis, SpaceX Dragon
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/112028/private-dream-chaser-crewed-mini-shuttle-design-advances-through-rigorous-wind-tunnel-tests/
