Re: Space Shuttle Drag Coefficient

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:14:34 -0500, "Jon S. Berndt" <jsb@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

alliek wrote:
Does anybody know a good source for this info? Thank you!

Check out NTRS: I think they have some documents on shuttle
aerodynamics.

Yes. This is probably one of the better ones I've seen:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20030003696_2003000361.pdf

Warning: It's 10+ MB.

I have a paper copy (notice who's the third author). If you go to the
Dryden web site and search the DTRS, you'll get a much better copy.
It's the original version, not a scanned-in version, and it's a lot
clearer.

If you read "Extraction of Stability and Control Derivatives from
Orbiter Flight Data", Iliff and Shafer, TM X-4500, June 1993,
<http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19940006252_1994006252.pdf>
you'll find out a lot more about how the Orbiter data books were
established and updated. This one's also on the Dryden site.

Mary
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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
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