Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2022)
Recipient: AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2017-10-02 to 2018-05-15
Current total value of award: $735987
Description: ANALYSIS OF THE SINGLE-AISLE TURBOELECTRIC AIRCRAFT WITH AFT BOUNDARY LAYER PROPULSION (STARC-ABL) ADVANCED CONCEPT. THE INTENT OF THIS STUDY IS TO PERFORM AN INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS OF THE STARC-ABL CONCEPT, AN ADVANCED LOW-WING TURBOELECTRIC COMMERCIAL TRANSPORT.  THE STARC-ABL CONCEPT WAS INITIALLY DESCRIBED IN AIAA-2016-1027, AND FURTHER RESEARCH HAS IDENTIFIED SIMILAR SYSTEM LEVEL TRENDS WITH MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO THE PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED DESIGN, SUCH AS A MACH 0.785 CRUISE SPEED.  DUE TO THE SHORT DURATION OF THIS TASK, THERE IS NO EXPECTATION OF ADVANCING THE CONCEPT MATURITY BEYOND THE CONCEPTUAL LEVEL AS DESCRIBED IN AIAA-2016-1027. INSTEAD, THE GOAL IS TO EITHER GAIN CONFIDENCE IN THE CONCEPTUAL LEVEL SYSTEM TRENDS OF THE STARC-ABL CONCEPT OR IDENTIFY DISCREPANCIES THAT WARRANT POTENTIAL FURTHER STUDY. THE BLOCK FUEL WEIGHT FOR THE DESIGN AND ECONOMIC MISSIONS IS THE METRIC OF INTEREST.