Monday, February 14, 2000

IRDT

 2000-009B


The 110 kg demonstrator is deorbited after 5 orbits and deploys an inflatable shield during reentry. The initial shield is 0.8 x 0.7m in size, and inflates with He to 2.4m diameter and then during braking to 3.6m diam.

The IRDT consists of a conical front shield, the inflation system, the TRD shield, a cylindrical payload canister, and a cylindrical adaptor.

The demonstrator carries the 'Stone 2' experiment with basalt, dolomite and cement-carbonate samples embedded in the heat shield to study heating effects on meteorites.

Landing is in Orenburg zone, Russia

The demonstrator shield, built by Lavochkin, was originally to be used in Mars-96.

Fregat's shield, the Fregat Rescue System, inflates to 14m dia.

The Inflatable Reentry and Descent Technology Demonstrator flies on Soyuz/Fregat in 2000. The Fregat demo flight places itself, the test vehicle, and the attached DASA Mission 2000 payload in orbit. After 8 hours it deorbits and deploys an inflatable thermal shield. The shield is built by Lavochkin. Landing in Kazakhstan. [509] The shield is 8m dia stage 1, 14-m diameter stage 2.

The demonstrator payload also deorbits with a smaller inflatable shield 4-m diameter

2 burns to prove Cluster, and 2 burns for reentry.

IRDT has a mass of 111 kg. Diameter 0.8m initial, 2.3m stage 1, 3.8m stage 2. Landed at 53E 51N. Stage 2 did not deploy and impact was at 60 m/s. Total mass was 112 kg (plus the 33 kg small NTU).

In Russian the inflatable heat shield is called NTU:

\uni{ надувного тормозного устройства }{ }
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\uni{ НТУ)}{ }


Fregat 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2000 Feb 8 2320:00  Launch  KB LC31 
  T+1:58 Strapon sep 
  T+2:54 GO sep 
  T+4:47 Blok A sep 
  T+5:21 Interstage sep 
 2328:45 T+8:45 MECO 
  T+8:49 Blok I sep  -1200 x 180? x 64.9 
  T+8:54 Fregat SOZ burn 195s 0.53 km/s 
  T+9:49 Fregat MES-1 
 2333:04  T+13:04 Fregat MECO-1, transfer orbit  168 x 564 x 64.9  
 2336?  Blok I reentry 
2000 Feb 9  0022:00  T+1:02:00 Fregat SOZ-2 
2000 Feb 9  0022:55  T+1:02:55 Fregat MES-2 
  T+1:03:35 Fregat MECO-2  590 x 613 x 64.9  
 0023:48 T+1:03:48 GM (Dummy mass) sep 
 0641:46  T+7:21:46 SOZ-3 
  T+7:22:41 Fregat Burn 3, lower peri 
  T+ 7:23:17 Fregat MECO-3 at 582 km  151 x 601 x 64.9 
 0728:43  T+8:04:43 SOZ-4 
 0729:38 T+8:09:38 MES-4 
 0737:49 T+8:17:49 MECO-4 at 135 km -4300 x 180 x 64.9  
 0738:11  T+8:18:11 Demo RV sep 
 0738:31  T+8:18:31 Adapter sep from Fregat 
  Shield deploy at 50 km 
  T+8:19:45 Entry 
 0757 T+8:35s Impact at 13m/s 

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