UNGUIDED ROCKET BALLISTICS METEOROLOGY CONFERENCE, 31 OCTOBER-2 NOVEMBER 1967

Abstract

Topics include: empirical determination of drag; sounding rocket configuration; fin/spin stabilization of unguided launch vehicles; new low cost meteorological rocket system; sounding rocket performance; reducing the dispersion of multi-stage sounding rockets; unguided rocket impact predictions; spectra of atmospheric turbulence; wind variability; wind profiles and shear; wind speed statistics along a hypothetical missile trajectory; low level wind study; wind shear over heterogeneous terrain; a method to compute the effects of wind on the dispersion of a vertically launched rocket; testing of the nature of certain time series; predicting nonlinear wind compensation of ballistic rocket systems; project Twinkle; computer applications to wind weighting; discrete recursive estimation; computation of mean wind speed; blue goose wind correction analysis; impact prediction system and meteorological requirements for the aerobee - 350; data reduction techniques for use on meteorological data above 30 kilometers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 02, 1967
Accession Number
AD0661631

Entities

People

  • Elmer J. Trawle

Organizations

  • New Mexico State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Control Systems
  • Convection
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Mathematical Models
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Random Variables
  • Rocket Engines
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.