International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 27-30, 1997 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Flight Safety concerns increase proportionally with increasing missile performance.
These concerns are greatest in the near launch arena where a missile has the greatest
potential energy. Systems such as radar, GPS tracking systems, and optics are normally
of limited use in this arena for a number of reasons. A system was required that would
provide useful tracking data in the first few seconds of a missile launch. This system has
met that requirement providing nominal path deviation data from the launcher out to as
much as 120 seconds.
The tracking system described herein uses the principle of radio interferometry to derive
phase difference measurements between carefully spaced antennas. These measurements
are transmitted to the Operational Display Facility and converted to a usable angular
deviation plot for use by Flight Safety Personnel.
This paper provides an elementary radio interferometer system background and discusses
this particular system setup and use. Some detail is provided on the premission simulation
and setup of the system as well as the real-time display setup and output of the final data
product.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607543 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Winstead, Michael L., Saenz, Karen J. |
| Contributors | White Sands Missile Range |
| 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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