AUTOMATIC ROCKET IMPACT PREDICTOR 2

Abstract

The Automatic Rocket Impact Predictor 2 (ARIP 2) was designed to improve the capability of impact prediction for unguided, multiple-stage, highaltitude rockets. The system is still in the development stage. ARIP 2 will use analog wind data from each of eight wind instruments mounted on a 500-foot tower, and from an automatic tracking pilot-balloon system and will be sampled at the rate of two data points per second. Predetermined wind weighting factors and unit wind effects will be applied to these data to determine the displacement of the rocket impact due to the wind from the surface to 10,000 feet. The displacement will be added automatically and continuously to a wind displacement value (manual input) determined from rawinsonde-measured winds, thus providing a continuous plot (on a range map) of the predicted impact of as many as five rocket stages. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0290502

Entities

People

  • Elmer J. Trawle
  • Henry Rachele

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic
  • Automatic Tracking
  • Communication Equipment
  • Displacement
  • Instrumentation
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Radio Equipment
  • Radiosondes

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  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Geodesy