{"id":788468,"date":"2024-09-05T20:15:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T01:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=788468"},"modified":"2024-09-05T20:15:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T01:15:54","slug":"bolt-1b-hypersonic-experiment-soars-and-collects-vital-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=788468","title":{"rendered":"BOLT-1B hypersonic experiment soars and collects vital data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\n \n Launched from Norway, the BOLT-1B experiment collected data about boundary layer transition (the flow of air around the skin of a hypersonic vehicle), which increases hypersonic vehicle drag and aerodynamic heating. That data will be used by researchers to validate new and more accurate modeling and prediction methods during the design of hypersonic vehicles. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL \n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The Boundary Layer Transition 1B (BOLT-1B) experiment, a joint research project of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), blasted off from And\u00f8ya Space in Norway aboard a sounding rocket on Sept. 2. The experiment traveled over the Norwegian Sea at Mach 7.2 and provided a stream of important data on the physics of airflow at hypersonic speeds.<\/p>\n
“The data we gathered from the flight experiment will be critical for improving methods for designing future hypersonic vehicles, so we can reduce modeling uncertainties and optimize their performance,” said APL’s Brad Wheaton, chief scientist with the Vehicle Design and Technologies Group in APL’s Force Projection Sector and the project’s principal investigator.<\/p>\n
BOLT-1B’s mission is to study a phenomenon called boundary layer transition (the flow of air around the skin of a hypersonic vehicle), which increases hypersonic vehicle drag and aerodynamic heating. The scientific data collected from the test will be used by researchers to validate new and more accurate modeling and prediction methods during the design of hypersonic vehicles.<\/p>\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n