NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Solar pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Solar

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The NASA Engineering and Safety Center sponsored Hypersonic Thermodynamic Infrared Measurements assessment team has a task to perform radiometric calibration and validation of land-based and airborne infrared imaging assets and tools for remote thermographic imaging. The IR assets and tools will be used for thermographic imaging of the Space Shuttle Orbiter during entry aero-heating to provide flight boundary layer transition thermography data that could be utilized for calibration and validation of empirical and theoretical aero-heating tools. A series of tests at the Sandia National Laboratories National Solar Thermal Test Facility were designed for this task where reflected solar radiation from a field of heliostats was used to heat a 4 foot by 4 foot test panel consisting of LI 900 ceramic tiles located on top of the 200 foot tall Solar Tower. The test panel provided an Orbiter-like entry temperature for the purposes of radiometric calibration and validation.

The Solar Tower provided an ideal test bed for this series of radiometric calibration and validation tests because it had the potential to rapidly heat the large test panel to spatially uniform and non-uniform elevated temperatures. Also, the unsheltered-open-air environment of the Solar Tower was conducive to obtaining unobstructed radiometric data by land-based and airborne IR imaging assets. Various thermocouples installed on the test panel and an infrared imager located in close proximity to the test panel were used to obtain surface temperature measurements for evaluation and calibration of the radiometric data from the infrared imaging assets. The overall test environment, test article, test approach, and typical test results are discussed

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 6/23/2008
• Year: 2008
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), AERODYNAMIC HEATING, ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY, RADIOMETERS, INFRARED IMAGERY, IMAGING TECHNIQUES, HIGH TEMPERATURE TESTS, THERMODYNAMICS, INFRARED RADIATION, TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT, TOWERS, TEST STANDS, SAFETY, REFLECTED WAVES, Splinter, Scott C., Daryabeigi, Kamran, Horvath, Thomas J., Mercer, David C., Ghanbari, Cheryl M., Ross, Martin N., Tietjen, Alan, Schwartz, Richard J

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