International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 27-30, 1997 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / A target missile is a unique piece of test hardware. This test tool must be highly reliable,
low cost and simple and must perform any task that the developing interceptor missile
planners require. The target missile must have ample power and guidance resources to put
the target in a specified place in the sky at a desired time. The telemetry and measurement
system for the target missile must have the same requirements as its interceptor missile but
must be flexible enough to accept new requirements as they are applied to the target and
its interceptor. The United States Army has tasked Coleman Aerospace to design and build
this type of target missile. This paper describes and analyzes the telemetry and
instrumentation system that a Hera target missile carries. This system has been flying for
the past two years, has completed seven out of seven successful test flights and has
accomplished all test objectives to date.
The telemetry and instrumentation system is an integral part of the missile self-test system.
All preflight checks and flight simulations are made with the on-board three-link telemetry
system through a radio frequency (RF) link directly through the missile antenna system to a
ground station antenna. If an RF transmission path is not available due to test range
restrictions, a fiber-optic cable links the pulse code modulator (PCM) encoder to the
receiving ground stations which include the bitsync, decommutator and recorders. With
this capability, alternative testing is not limited by RF test range availability.
The ground stations include two mobile stations and a factory station for all testing
including preflight testing of the missile system prior to flight test launches. These three
ground stations are built in a single configuration with additional equipment in the mobile
units for use at remote locations. The design, fabrication, testing and utilization of these
ground stations are reviewed. The telemetry system is a modification of the classical PCM
system and will operate with its interceptor missile at least into the first decade from the
year 2000.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607598 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Grant, Eugene |
| Contributors | Coleman Research Corporation |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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