Sara DI BENEDETTO, Marco MARINI, Pietro RONCIONI, Salvatore CARDONE, Marta ALBANO, Roberto BERTACIN

DOI Number: N/A

Conference number: HiSST-2025-275

In the frame of the research and experimentation for hypersonic flight, the Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA), by means of the national program PRORA, and the Italian Aerospace Agency (ASI), funded a project aimed at designing a propelled hypersonic demonstrator, the Scramjet Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle (SHEV), and its flight experimental mission. The paper presents the main achievements in designing both the air-launched mission and the flight demonstrator. The mission scenario foresees the use of a carrier aircraft and a launch vehicle (LV) propelled by a booster to drive the scramjet demonstrator at the defined experimental window. Once released, the hypersonic demonstrator shall be capable of ensuring a controlled and levelled flight at Mach number between 6 and 8, at an altitude ranging from 27 to 32 km, for 10 seconds with scramjet propulsive system on.
This paper describes the more recent activities performed at system level for the vehicle and mission definition and design, identifies the critical technologies and presents the test campaigns planned to achieve the maturity level required at subsystem level; in particular, a dedicated experimental firing test campaign is planned to be performed in the DLR M11 facility in a direct-connect configuration, with the aim at demonstrating the scramjet engine capability to sustain the combustion under aerothermal flight conditions, and the numerical methodology used to perform the combustion analyses and so to assess the aero-propulsive balance.

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