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A mock-up of the stainless-steel Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Projects experimental "glove" undergoes hot-loads tests at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The thermal ground test simulates heats and pressures the wing glove will experience at hypersonic speeds. Quartz heat lamps subject this model of a Pegasus booster rocket's right wing glove to the extreme heats it will experience at speeds approaching Mach 8.
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- NASA
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A mock-up of the stainless-steel Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Projects experimental "glove" undergoes hot-loads tests at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The thermal ground test simulates heats and pressures the wing glove will experience at hypersonic speeds. Quartz heat lamps subject this model of a Pegasus booster rocket's right wing glove to the extreme heats it will experience at speeds approaching Mach 8.
The glove has a highly reflective surface, underneath which are hundreds of temperature and pressure sensors that will send hypersonic flight data to ground tracking facilities during the experimental flight.
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- Wednesday 13 September 1995
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- US SPACE PROGRAM / AERONAUTICS RESEARCH / Pegasus
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- https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Pegasus/index.html
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