Space Launch System Ascent Static Aerodynamic Database Development

ViGYAN Inc., Hampton, VA, 23666Notice to the ReaderThe Space Launch System, including its predicted performance and certain other features and charac-teristics, have been defined by the U.S. Government to be Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU). Informationdeemed to be SBU requires special protection and may not be disclosed to an international audience, such asthe audience that might be present at the 2014 AIAA SciTech Conference. To comply with SBU restrictions,details such as absolute values have been removed from some plots and figures in this paper. It is the opinionof the authors that despite these alterations, there is no loss of meaningful technical content. Analyticalmethodologies and capabilities are discussed; significant and interesting technical results are still present; andmeaningful conclusions also presented.