International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Edwards Flight Test Range is a part of 20,000 square miles of DOD airspace (R-2508). A hypersonic air vehicle traveling above Mach 3 can easily exceed that airspace
within seconds. An Unpiloted Autonomous Vehicle can exceed the airspace when flying
long duration missions. To satisfy the flight-test requirements of Hypersonic Air Vehicles
and Unpiloted Autonomous Vehicles, additional airspace and extended test ranges are
required. The Air Force Flight Test Center and Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards
Air Force Base, California have mutual goals to support these flight test programs. To
meet these goals, the Extended Test Range Alliance was formed as an engineering and
operations team to satisfy program requirements in the areas of telemetry, flight
termination, ground communications, uplink command, and differential global positioning
systems. This paper will discuss the resources and technical capabilities available through
the Extended Test Range.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607322 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Mackall, Dale A., Sakahara, Robert D. |
| Contributors | NASA, Air Force Flight Test Center |
| 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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