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AB - SPECIAL SECTION: ISRO’S PAD ABORT TEST Structural design, development and qualification tests of grid fin Able C. Kurian*, B. Santhosh, P. D. Shaji, Sibi Joseph and A. Rajarajan Composite Launch Vehicle Structures Group, Composites Entity, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 695 013, India actuators. Grid fin configuration was optimized and drag Crew Escape System (CES) is one of the most critical was tailored with minimum impact on the aerodynamic pro- subsystems in a human-rated launch vehicle. It is an perties through suitable lattice control design . Four grid emergency escape module to rescue the Crew Module fins are mounted at the aft end of CES. Grid fins are initial- (CM) with the crew to a safe distance from the launch ly in stowed condition until CES is activated. They are vehicle in an exigency at the launch pad or during deployed using pyro device with a total deployment time of atmospheric phase. Pad Abort Test (PAT) is a tech- nology demonstration on the capability of CES to eva- 525 ms, when CES is activated in case of exigency. A cuate the crew in case of any exigency at the launch thermal protection layer of epoxy paint with about 0.9 
TI - Structural Design, Development and Qualification Tests of Grid Fin
JO - Current Science
DO - 10.18520/cs/v120/i1/141-146
DA - 2021-01-10
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/structural-design-development-and-qualification-tests-of-grid-fin-ltP60kuZb8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -