Aerospace applications launch vehicles

The aerospace field is a broad one and has a complex history. A comprehensive review of structural adhesive applications on currently flying aerospace vehicles alone could fill its own book. Hence this chapter will concentrate on the aerospace commercial transport industry and its use of adhesives in structural applications, both metallic and composite. Both primary structure, that is structure which carries primary flight loads and failure of which could result in loss of vehicle, and secondary structure will be considered. Structural adhesives use and practice in the military aircraft and launch vehicle/spacecraft fields as well as non-structural adhesives used on commercial aircraft will be touched on briefly as well. 

Aeronautics is the science of atmospheric flight. Aviation is the design, development, production, and operation of flight vehicles. Aerospace engineering extends these fields to space vehicles. Transonic airliners, airships, space launch vehicles, satellites, helicopters, interplanetary probes, and fighter planes are all applications of aerospace engineering. 

Silver-zinc batteries have found wide use on numerous space applications, including launch-vehicle guidance and control, telemetry, and destruct power Apollo lunar spacecraft, lunar and Mars rovers, and lunar drill power space shuttle payload launch and get-away special batteries as well as power for the life-support equipment used by the U.S. astronauts during Extra-Vehicular Activities (EVA). Figure 33.23 shows a typical aerospace battery consisting of ten 145-Ah silver-zinc cells housed in a cast magnesium case, equipped with a pressure relief valve, a pressurizing valve, and a battery connector. 

Silver-zinc batteries are used, in addition, in photoelectric exposure devices, flashlights, instruments, reference voltage sources and missile telemetry, space launch vehicles, aerospace, portable equipment and military applications. 

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