TY - GEN
T1 - Design and Development Status of Experimental Winged Rocket WIRES#015
AU - Watanabe, Akira
AU - Yonemoto, Koichi
AU - Fujikawa, Takahiro
AU - Matsukami, Takahiro
AU - Otsuki, Tsuyoshi
AU - Kitazono, Yuto
AU - Koshida, Yasuhiro
AU - Murakami, Masaaki
AU - Watanabe, Tomataka
AU - Atarashi, Hina
AU - Takeyama, Hidetoshi
AU - Tejika, Shintaro
AU - Fujii, Yuito
AU - Matsuda, Raizo
AU - Mine, Yusuke
AU - Yamazaki, Ayaka
AU - Yoshida, Sho
AU - Morito, Toshiki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Research on winged reusable space transportation systems and flight demonstration by experimental winged rockets called WInged REusable Sounding rocket (WIRES) have been conducted by researchers and laboratory graduates since 2005. WIRES#015 has been developed by Tokyo University of Science, the university start-up SPACE WALKER Inc., and JAXA in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC). It has a total length of 4.6 m, launch mass of 1000 kg, and maximum flight altitude of 5.5 km, which is a comprehensive technology demonstrator for technical issues such as the liquid oxygen/liquefied natural gas engine, reaction control system, airframe structure, and propellant tanks made of carbon fiber reinforced plastics and autonomous guidance, navigation, and control systems. Currently, WIRES#015 is in the sustaining design phase. The airframe structure will be manufactured by March 2022 in cooperation with Toray Carbon Magic Co., Ltd. and Mooncraft Co., Ltd. and subjected to structural tests. In 2023, the captive firing test (CFT) will be conducted. The first flight demonstration will be performed in early 2024. Three additional flight demonstrations are planned from 2025 to 2026. In this paper, we describe the development status of WIRES#015 and its development schedule.
AB - Research on winged reusable space transportation systems and flight demonstration by experimental winged rockets called WInged REusable Sounding rocket (WIRES) have been conducted by researchers and laboratory graduates since 2005. WIRES#015 has been developed by Tokyo University of Science, the university start-up SPACE WALKER Inc., and JAXA in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC). It has a total length of 4.6 m, launch mass of 1000 kg, and maximum flight altitude of 5.5 km, which is a comprehensive technology demonstrator for technical issues such as the liquid oxygen/liquefied natural gas engine, reaction control system, airframe structure, and propellant tanks made of carbon fiber reinforced plastics and autonomous guidance, navigation, and control systems. Currently, WIRES#015 is in the sustaining design phase. The airframe structure will be manufactured by March 2022 in cooperation with Toray Carbon Magic Co., Ltd. and Mooncraft Co., Ltd. and subjected to structural tests. In 2023, the captive firing test (CFT) will be conducted. The first flight demonstration will be performed in early 2024. Three additional flight demonstrations are planned from 2025 to 2026. In this paper, we describe the development status of WIRES#015 and its development schedule.
KW - Flight demonstration
KW - Guidance and control
KW - LOX/LNG engine
KW - Winged rocket
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-19-2689-1_24
DO - 10.1007/978-981-19-2689-1_24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85137781553
SN - 9789811926884
T3 - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
SP - 323
EP - 337
BT - The Proceedings of the 2021 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology APISAT 2021, Volume 1
A2 - Lee, Sangchul
A2 - Han, Cheolheui
A2 - Choi, Jeong-Yeol
A2 - Kim, Seungkeun
A2 - Kim, Jeong Ho
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology, APISAT 2021
Y2 - 15 November 2021 through 17 November 2021
ER -