Vacuum and flow field results from the wake shield facility flight experiment
1995; American Institute of Physics; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1063/1.47289
ISSN1935-0465
AutoresMona Desai, Rebecca Forrest, Charles Horton, A. Ignatiev, Mark Sterling, J. Strozier, CHARLES JUSTIZ, Ron Sega,
Tópico(s)Astro and Planetary Science
ResumoThe Wake Shield Facility (WSF) created to characterize and utilize the ultra‐vacuum of space has corroborated the formation of a wake region behind an orbiting vehicle. In its maiden flight on the remote manipulator arm of STS‐60 in February, 1994, the WSF generated the highest vacuum ever measured in low earth orbit space. In addition, details of wake formation and flow field characterization have been obtained with the added benefit of the characterization of the contaminating effects of the Orbiter on the low earth vacuum environment.
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