ANTENNA LOOK ANGLES AND POWERED FLIGHT TRAJECTORY RESTORATION FROM MISSILE RADIO GUIDANCE OBSERVATIONS AT PMR,

Abstract

A method of estimating ballistic missile attitude during the powered-flight period from track and rate observations recorded at the Mk II Complex at PMR is contained herein. The method, which consists of differentiating smoothed velocity data to obtain the total missile acceleration vector in inertial space, permits one to solve for the thrust acceleration vector, which on the average for all but near-instantaneous angular velocities is considered coincident with the roll axis of a roll-stabilized missile. From missile attitudes and accelerations, antenna look angles may be obtained for analysis of ground-toairborne tracking during powered flight. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 15, 1964
Accession Number
AD0430745

Entities

People

  • J. W. Powers

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Data Acquisition
  • Guidance
  • Motion
  • Observation
  • Physical Properties
  • Trajectories

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers