This paper discusses the design, development, test, and evaluation of a prototype Extended Nose Landing Gear (ENLG) for NASA's Space Shuttle orbiters. The ENLG is a proposed orbiter modification developed in-house at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) by a joint government/industry team. It increases the orbiter's nose landing gear (NLG) length, thereby changing the vehicle's angle of attack during rollout, which lowers the aerodynamic forces on the vehicle. This, in combination with a dynamic elevon change, will lower the loads on the orbiter's main landing gear (MLG). The extension is accomplished by adding a telescoping section to the current NLG strut that will be pneumatically extended during NLG deployment.
NASA Orbiter Extended Nose Landing Gear
33rd Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium ; 1999 ; Pasadena, CA, US
01.05.1999
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
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Englisch
NTIS | 1979
|Emerald Group Publishing | 2000