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Development Of A Laboratory Experiment To Simulate Upper-Stage Rocket Explosions, Timothy J. Price
Development Of A Laboratory Experiment To Simulate Upper-Stage Rocket Explosions, Timothy J. Price
Aerospace Engineering
This report is a summary of the senior project entitled Development of a Laboratory Experiment to Simulate Upper-Stage Rocket Explosions. The goal of the experiment was to recreate a NASA experiment which used aluminum soft drink cans to approximate the shape of an Ariane third stage rocket. The cans were placed in a vacuum chamber and fired upon with a projectile from a light gas gun. The resulting debris was collected and analyzed allowing several conclusions to be made regarding the behavior or rocket breakups and the formation of space debris. In lieu of a light gas gun, energy drink …