RELATIVE MOTION IN THE VICINITY OF A BALLISTIC MISSILE,

Abstract

Approximate power series solutions to the linearized differential equations of motion are obtained in a rotating coordinate system with the origin moving on a ballistic trajectory of arbitrary eccentricity and through a central angle corresponding to the coast phase of a ballistic missile. The position propagation of injection velocity perturbations in the rotating system as determined by the first four terms of the series solutions is found to be sufficiently accurate to be utilized in preliminary design type analyses. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0674619

Entities

People

  • Leonard Rider

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Ballistic Trajectories
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Eccentricity
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Power Series
  • Relative Motion
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • ballistics.