International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 28-31, 1996 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / The future of range operations in the area of expendable launch vehicle (ELV) support is
unquestionably headed in the direction of space-based rather than land- or air-based assets
for such functions as metric tracking or telemetry data collection. To this end, an effort
was recently completed by the Air Force’s Eastern Range (ER) to certify NASA’s
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) as a viable and operational asset to be
used for telemetry coverage during future Titan IV/Centaur launches. The test plan
developed to demonstrate this capability consisted of three parts: 1) a bit error rate test; 2)
a bit-by-bit compare of data recorded via conventional means vice the TDRSS network
while the vehicle was radiating in a fixed position from the pad; and 3) an in-flight
demonstration to ensure positive radio frequency (RF) link and usable data during critical
periods of telemetry collection. The subsequent approval by the Air Force of this approach
allows future launch vehicle contractors a relatively inexpensive and reliable means of
telemetry data collection even when launch trajectories are out of sight of land-based
assets or when land- or aircraft-based assets are not available for support.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607608 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Bocchino, Chris, Hamilton, William |
| 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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