Annotation: These days when creating any rocket space complex, it is important to ensure its advancement and competitive ability. To create such complex, the technical systems it consists of must be implemented with minimal economic and energy costs. Rocket and space complexes feature the thermostatting system, which ensures the required humidity and temperature conditions in the integrated launch vehicles throughout all the phases of their pre-launch processing. Development of the competitive rocket and space complex also requires the new approach in the development of the thermostatting system. One of the main tasks is to create a system that can be mass-produced and used as part of any rocket and space complex. Solving this problem will significantly reduce the cost of creating and operating the thermostatting systems and the whole rocket and space complex. One of the ways to solve this task is to create a general-purpose thermostatting system. The modular principle for such thermostatting system would be optimal, which means making up a system from separate modules. It simplifies the all-round installation of various system options and simplifies its setup and operation. The paper demonstrates the possibility and prospects of creating modular thermostatting systems, which enable air supply with the required parameters to different consumers. Characteristics and design of the general-purpose thermostatting module are specified, which can be used as the main component without changing anything in the composition of stationary and mobile thermostatting systems.

Annotation: The problem is defined of designing the space rocket low-pressure air thermostating systems joints. The basic requirements imposed to the joints from the side of space rocket and ground complex are determined and stated. For this purpose, the analysis of operating conditions and possible situations during rocket launches is made. Besides, the methodological principles based on problematic, systematic, and structuralfunctional approach were applied using the theoretical and empirical capabilities, attraction of general scientific and special investigation methods, as well as historical and logical methods. The list of topical issues is reflected for implementation in joint’s design. The ways are proposed to create the joints meeting the requirements imposed. As a result, it was ascertained that the joints can be made of simpler and at the same time failure-free design in the form of combined triune rubber hose fitted with a metal fixation/release unit installed on a sealing flange in a special groove. Of special note is the versatility of the proposed technical solution for use in any of the space launch systems known in the world’s practice. The article is concluded with following: the basic requirements have been formulated for ground complexes thermostating systems joints to ensure space rockets prelaunch processing and launch, in doing so, the topical problems were defined; the scientific principles were proposed to design the thermostating systems joints for comprehensive solution of the topical problems , including potential critical situations; the thermostating systems joints have been developed, manufactured and have successfully passed the ground development tests with simulation of the conditions maximally close to operating ones at static operating air pressures and in off-nominal situations.

Annotation: The article considers the procedure for evaluation of acoustic stressing parameters at the observation point nearby the launch vehicle nose cone when passing the sectors with maximum velocity heads and close to 1 Mach numbers. And the problem is set to determine the overall sound pressure level and the corresponding levels in octave and 1/3-octave frequency bands. Procedure under consideration is based on the semi-empirical dependency of characteristics of the wideband aerodynamic noise, which occurs during the launch vehicle flight at high velocities due to the turbulent pressure fluctuations and dimensionless aerodynamic parameters of the main stream. General idea of this approach is to establish relation of the velocity heads with wall pressure fluctuations in the boundary layer, calculating shear stress (friction) on the shell surface based on relationships applicable in the boundary layer theory and engineering experience. Attempts of development of similar calculation models go back to the early efforts, dedicated to the study of the aeroacoustics of the launch vehicle in flight. Main advantages of the procedure are its simplicity and versatility since it can be used to determine the acoustic loads around the payload fairings of launch vehicles of different sizes and shapes within the wide range of flight velocities and altitudes.