[AR] flame deflectors (was Re: starship abort?)
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 11:52:13 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 20 Apr 2023, roxanna Mason wrote:
It's interesting to note that the aforementioned Saturn 5 deflector was
passive in nature, not a steel plate with 1000's of holes flowing high
pressure water.
So simple it's painful.
Not an entirely trivial design, though -- for example, the angle between
its sides changed at least once during development, to make sure that a
detached shock didn't form above it. (It's an aerodynamic surface in
supersonic flow...)
Henry
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