Author

Y. MARU, S. SAWAI, T. HASHIMOTO, S. SAKAI, N. BANDO, H. FUKE, K. FUJITA, H. KOBAYASHI, T. KOJIMA, H. TAGUCHI S. UENO, K. MIYAJI and S. KADOOKA

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Insitute of Space and Astronautical Science Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS JAXA), Aerospace Research and Development Directorate Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Yokohama National University, Graduate Student Musashi Institute of Technology

Abstract

The Balloon-based Operation Vehicle (BOV) originally developed for the micro-gravity experiments is modified as a supersonic flight demonstrator of a sub-scale precooled turbojet engine developed in Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. In the supersonic flight demonstration, the vehicle is raised by a high-altitude balloon up to a 40 km altitude and is dropped to accelerate to a supersonic velocity. To extend the flight time for an engine combustion test in the supersonic environments, the vehicle is redesigned in a wing- body configuration with a main delta wing and movable vertical and horizontal tail wings so that it can be pulled up above an altitude of 5 km. In this paper, the supersonic flight test plan is introduced, and an overview of the flight demonstrator and the tested supersonic air breathing engine is summarized.

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