Aero 338 Assignment 1 by Raunak Sakhardande Vehicle No 2. CZ-4 Problem No 2 1.

Information about CZ-4 CZ-4 or ChangZheng4 is a Chinese space launch vehicle also known as Long march 4. It was launched only in 2 successful flights one in 1989 and another in 1990. Its purpose was to launch sunsynchronous satellites and it was successful two payloads both being Fengyun 1 satellites. CZ-4 operates in 3 stages. The detailed specification is given Specifications Stages: 3 Boosters: None Overall length: 41.901m Core stage diameter: 3.35m Take-off mass: 241.90t Take-off thrust: 2,942kN Thrust-weight ratio: 1.24 Payload capacity: 1,500kg (SSO) First flight: 6 Sept 1988 Final flight: 3 Sept 1990 Status: Retired

First-Stage Length: 24.650m Diameter: 3.35m Gross mass: 187.26t Empty mass: 9.830t Propellant mass: 177.43t Engine: YF-21B, consisting of four YF-20B chambers motors with swinging nozzles, each producing 75,500kg (731.5kN) thrust Propellant: Liquid (UDMH/N2O4) Thrust, sea-level: 2,942kN Isp, sea-level: 2,550N.s/kg Burn time: 150.6s

Second-Stage Length: 10.40m Diameter: 3.35m Gross mass: 38.58t Empty mass: 3.08t Propellant mass: 35.5t Engine: YF-24D, consisting of one 75,600kg (742kN)-thrust YF22 main motor with fixed nozzles and a YF21-1 swivelling venire motor consisting of four YF-24F chambers motors (4,800kg/47kN-thrust in total)

Propellant: Liquid (UDMH/N2O4) Thrust, vacuum (main motor): 719.8kN Thrust, vacuum (swivelling venire motor): 46.1kN Isp, vacuum (main motor): 2,835N.s/kg Isp, vacuum (swivelling venire motor):2,742N.s/kg Burn time (main motor): 126.8s Burn time (swivelling venire motor): 136.8s

Third-Stage Length: 4.954m Diameter: 2.90m Gross mass: 13.14t Empty mass: 1.80t Propellant mass: 11.34t Engine: YF-40 Propellant: Liquid (UDMH/N2O4) Thrust, vacuum: 98.0kN Isp, vacuum: 2,942N.s/kg Burn time: 329.8s

Payload Fairing Length: 4.909m Diameter: 2.90m Mass: 612kg

Approximate design of CZ-4

2. Burnout Calculations To calculate the velocity and altitude and determine the burnout performance of the rocket using given parameters. The parameters given approximately agree with parameters checked online. Using MATLAB code and ascent mission performance equations described in class the maximum aerodynamic drag is calculated and the height at which it occurs is tabulated.

Height at which maximum drag occurs=11 km Maximum drag per Area= 2.18*104N/m2 Cross-sectional area of launch vehicle = 10.362 m2 Time after which maxima occurs = 90 sec Total aerodynamic drag = 2.26*105 N Mass of launch vehicle at said time = 1.42 m/s2 Average aerodynamic drag approximated = 0.71 m/s2 Now using ascent equations we get the velocity and height as Vb=1337 m/s Hb=56.557 km

3. Calculation of Burnout time required to half the loss This was not done in a rigorous manner but I failed to determine the exact time since average drag is quite low. The burnout profile turned out to be approximately similar.

4. Constant Pitch rate calculations Using the formulae given we know that the external rate of change of angle can be fixed

q0= 0.00512 sec-1 (t) = 0.00512t+0.05233 V (t) = 2054.6875*sin (0.00512t+0.05233) m (t) = 272.06 e^ (-1.613sin(0.00512t+0.05233)) h (t) = 93.46 (1-cos (0.01024t+0.10466))+3.46