Description
Most vehicles that Northrop Grumman Space Systems flies have a requirement to keep their payload air conditioned. This air is blown into the fairing through a specific door in the fairings of the vehicle prior to launch. Recently,the Antares rocket door design is presenting negative side effects from the typical use of heritage design implementation to modified vehicle designs. Due to pressure differential and steep trajectories during flight door is easily unlatching, causing high air leakage. The team's objective is to design, anaylze, and build a protoype door latching system that is insensitive to pressure differences that may be seen in any flight.
Posted on September 24, 2020
Advisors
Our advisors included Dr. David Trevas and Dr. Sarah Oman of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Northern Arizona University.
Info: David.Trevas@nau.edu and Sarah.Oman@nau.edu
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Sponsors
Our client and sponsor for this project is Northrop Grumman. We are being lead by mechanical engineers Daniel Johnson and Kaitlyn Barr.
Info: Daniel.Johnson2@ngc.com and Kaitlyn.Barr@ngc.com
To learn more about the company's work, explore the
Northrop Grumman webiste.
