International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 28-31, 1996 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) is developing new Theater Missile
Defense (TMD) and National Missile Defense (NMD) weapon systems to defend against
the expanding ballistic missile threat. In the arms control arena, theater ballistic missile
threats have been defined to include systems with reentry velocities up to five kilometers
per second and strategic ballistic missile threats have reentry velocities that exceed five
kilometers per second. The development and testing of TMD systems such as the Army
Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and the Navy Area Theater Ballistic
Missile Defense (TBMD) Lower Tier, and NMD systems such as the Army
Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle and the Army Ground-Based Radar, pose exceptional
challenges that stem from extreme acquisition range and high telemetry data transfer rates.
Potential Central Pacific range locations include U.S. Army Kwajalien Atoll/Kwajalein
Missile Range (USAKA/KMR) and the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) with target
launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Wake Island, Aur Atoll, Johnston Island, and,
possibly, an airborne platform. Safety considerations for remote target launches dictate
utilization of high-data-rate, on-board instrumentation; technical performance measurement
dictates transmission of focal plane array data; and operational requirements dictate
intercepts at exoatmospheric altitudes and long slant ranges. The high gain, high data rate,
telemetry acquisition requirements, coupled with loss of the upper S-band spectrum, may
require innovative approaches to minimize electronic noise, maximize telemetry system
gain, and fully utilize the limited S-band telemetry spectrum. The paper will address the
emerging requirements and will explore the telemetry design trade space.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607604 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Markwardt, Jack, LaPoint, Steve |
| 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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