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General parameters used for constructing nose cone profiles. Given the problem of the aerodynamic design of the nose cone section of any vehicle or body meant to travel through a compressible fluid medium (such as a rocket or aircraft, missile, shell or bullet), an important problem is the determination of the nose cone geometrical shape for optimum performance.
English: Render from SolidWorks CAD program of a spherically blunted conic-shaped rocket nose cone with a length of 18 inches, a primary radius of 4 inches, and a nose cap radius of 1 inch. Date 17 July 2018
A nose cone is the conically shaped forwardmost section of a rocket, guided missile or aircraft, designed to modulate oncoming airflow behaviors and minimize aerodynamic drag. Nose cones are also designed for submerged watercraft such as submarines , submersibles and torpedoes , and in high-speed land vehicles such as rocket cars and velomobiles .
When found on fixed-wing aircraft with forward-looking radar, as are commonly used for object or weather detection, the nose cones often additionally serve as radomes. On airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft (e.g. the American E-3 Sentry ), a discus -shaped rotating radome, often called a " rotodome ", is mounted on the top of ...
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A drag-reducing aerospike is a device (see nose cone design) used to reduce the forebody pressure aerodynamic drag of blunt bodies at supersonic speeds. The aerospike creates a detached shock ahead of the body. Between the shock and the forebody a zone of recirculating flow occurs which acts like a more streamlined forebody profile, reducing ...
English: Render from SolidWorks CAD program of a bi-conic-shaped rocket nose cone with a total length of 18 inches, a primary radius of 4 inches, a secondary (tip) section length of 6 inches, and a secondary radius of 2 inches.
Artist's rendering of a payload fairing being jettisoned An example of clamshell fairing of Falcon 9 during testing, 27 May 2013. A payload fairing is a nose cone used to protect a spacecraft payload against the impact of dynamic pressure and aerodynamic heating during launch through an atmosphere.