The SHEFEX Flight Experiment - Pathfinder Experiment for a Sky Based Test Facility

• Main Authors: Eggers, Thino, Longo, José M. A., Turner, John, Jung, Wolfgang, Hörschgen, Marcus, Stamminger, Andreas, Gülhan, Ali, Siebe, Frank, Requardt, G., Laux, Thorsten, Reimer, T., Weihs, Hendrik
• Other Authors: AIAA
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Raumfahrzeuge; MORABA-Mobile Raketenbasis; Institut für Bauweisen- und Konstruktionsforschung; Über- und Hyperschalltechnologien; Andøya; Norway; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/48070/; https://elib.dlr.de/48070/1/AIAA_2006_7921_Uebersicht.pdf

On Thursday, October 27th, 2005 the SHarp Edge Flight EXperiment SHEFEX was successfully launched at the Andøya Rocket Range in northern Norway. The project, being performed under responsibility of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) flew on top of a two-stage solid propellant sounding rocket. One pur...