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THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROTOTYPE ENHANCED FLIGHT TERMINATION SYSTEM

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Range Safety Systems are used for destruction of a vehicle should a malfunction cause the vehicle to
veer off course. All vehicles launched into space require implementation of a Range Safety System.
For years the IRIG receivers have been used with relatively good success. Unfortunately, the IRIG
receivers do not provide a high level of security. High alphabet receivers were later developed for
use on the big launchers (Atlas, Delta, Titan, etc) and the manned missions (Shuttle) to provide
added security. With the IRIG based system, several problems have occurred resulting in the loss
millions of dollars worth of equipment. Due to the problems that have occurred it has become
apparent that there is a need for a more secure, low cost, type of range safety receiver.
This paper describes the design and development of the prototype EFTS system. Mission critical
parameters are discussed including selection of the encryption and forward error correction
algorithms. Actual measured performance including message error rate characteristic is presented.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/605564
Date10 1900
CreatorsVetter, Jeff S., Cribbet, Travis
ContributorsCMC Electronics Cincinnati
PublisherInternational Foundation for Telemetering
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext, Proceedings
RightsCopyright © International Foundation for Telemetering
Relationhttp://www.telemetry.org/

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