Pioneer Venus probe models instrumented prop tests

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Aug 1978

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978kans.reptr....m&link_type=abstract

Final Report Kansas Univ., Lawrence.

Physics

Drop Tests, Pioneer Venus Spacecraft, Spacecraft Models, Aerodynamic Characteristics, Angle Of Attack, Mach Number, Oscillations, Reynolds Number, Rotation, Sideslip

Scientific paper

Models of both the small and large Pioneer Venus probes were dropped from a helicopter to simulate the conditions of Mach and Reynolds numbers to be encountered by the probes upon entry into the Venus atmosphere. The models were dropped at an average Mach number of .10 and at an average Reynolds number of 2.84 million for the small probe and 2.90 million for the large probe. After the large amplitude launching oscillations were damped, the small probe oscillations in angle of attack and in sideslip were generally less than 2 degrees. The large probe oscillations were generally less than 10 degrees. Both exhibited distinct frequencies. The motion of the small probe in a place perpendicular to the z axis was random while the large probe rotated (corkscrewed) at 1.1 cycles per second about the z axis. The average drag coefficients of the probe models were .714 for the small probe and .663 for the large probe.

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