SECEDE II Rocket Probe Payloads

Abstract

A summary of the engineering design and integration of the ARPA secede II Program rocket probe payloads which were flown in January 1971 in Eglin Air Force Base is presented. Six Terrier Tomahawk sounding rocket vehicles instrumented with a Langmuir probe, an electric field sensor, a plasma resonance instrument, a solar attitude sensor, a magnetic field sensor, and a telemetry system were flow during the program. In three of the flights, proper payload delivery was not achieved due to vehicle and despin malfunctions. One flight traversed the target successfully.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0740428

Entities

People

  • Carl A. Accardo
  • Herman Deweerd

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Circuits
  • Detectors
  • Electric Fields
  • Electron Density
  • Engineering
  • Heat Energy
  • Langmuir Probes
  • Magnetometers
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Probes
  • Resonance
  • Rockets
  • Sounding Rockets
  • Telemetry

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Missile Defense Systems.