Instrumentation of Reentry Plasma Experiments on Trail-Blazer II Rocket A21.220-1

Abstract

Five payloads have been launched. The fifth payload (produced under this contract) EMPLOYED THE ABLATION OF Teflon -covered nose cap as a source of electrophilic material. All the flights have been successful and the preliminary data analysis currently in process at AFCRL shows that the ablating Teflon was an effective plasma quenching agent.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 1974
Accession Number
ADA002375

Entities

People

  • J. Spencer Rochefort
  • Raimundas Sukys
  • Steven Goldberg

Organizations

  • Northeastern University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Craft
  • Air Force
  • Amplifiers
  • Attenuators
  • Contracts
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Logarithmic Amplifiers
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Operational Amplifiers
  • Power Distribution
  • Signal Processing
  • Spacecraft
  • Telemetry
  • Vehicles
  • Voltage Regulators

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Plasma Physics.