STABILIZATION OF MISSILE TRAJECTORY DURING BOOST PERIOD.

Abstract

A set of equations representing the motion of a missile being boosted to velocity and having vanes in the rocket jet actuated by fins in the wind stream for the purpose of reducing dispersion due to thrust malalignment and/or aerodynamic instability of the missile configuration has been studied with the aid of the University of Pennsylvania differential analyser. The results obtained indicate that the method should be successful to the extent of making possible the launching of a missile into a radar beam with relatively small deviations from the beam axis. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 02, 1947
Accession Number
AD0659110

Entities

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analyzers
  • Ascent Trajectories
  • Differential Analyzers
  • Dispersions
  • Equations
  • Instability
  • Launching
  • Pennsylvania
  • Radar Beams
  • Takeoff
  • Trajectories
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Structural Dynamics.