Re: N-1 "Stabilization Screens" (Wuz: Re: shuttle LOX line vs Saturn V LOX lines)
- From: Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:10:58 -0600
Mike Flugennock wrote:
Interesting how they dealt with the issue of forward-facing "rendezvous windows" -- using protruding "cupola"-style enclosures instead of the "cut-in" windows as on Gemini and Apollo. I wonder what the aerodynamic issues were -- if any -- with the cupola-style windows.
It was inside a shroud at launch, so none.
The airlock bulge on the Voskhod aerodynamic fairing might have been interesting from that point of view, and years back someone around here located a photo of a Voskhod booster with striped visual tracking markings on it, which might have been related to checking its stability during ascent with the asymmetrical bulged fairing.
That cupola has shown up on a modified form on the Soyuz TM at least once.
It's on the side facing the camera in this photo: http://space.skyrocket.de/img_sat/soyuz-tm-16__1.jpg
Pat
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