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THROAT SLOT [1 record]

Record 1 2003-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
CONT

All tests were conducted in the NASA Langley Nozzle Test Chamber Facility. This is an open-jet blow-down facility, and was equipped for the present tests with a slow-expansion, axisymmetric, quiet Mach 6 nozzle. ... The nozzle is equipped with an annular throat slot to remove the boundary layer that develops upstream of the throat.

OBS

(Ariane) Part of the Viking engine chamber.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux

Spanish

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