- Author
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DeWitt, R. L.
- Title
- Combustion Experimentation Aboard the Space Transportation System.
- Coporate
- National Aeronautics and Space Admin., Cleveland, OH
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Experiments in Zero-Gravity Laboratory. Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics. Volume 73,
American Inst. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, NY,
Cochran, T. H.; Summerfield, M., Editors,
245-258 p.,
1981
- Keywords
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combustion
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combustion chambers
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weightlessness
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Spacelab
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smoldering
- Identifiers
- zero gravity
- Abstract
- This paper describes the preliminary concept, specifications, and requirements of a reusable zero-gravity combustion facility (O-GCF) for use by experimenters aboard the Spacelab payload of the Space Transportation System (STS) Orbiter. The facility will be amenable to any mission of the STS Orbiter in which a Spacelab habitable segment and a pallet segment are integral and for which orbital mission plans specify induced accelerations of l0(-4) g or less for sufficiently long periods so as not to impact experiment performance.