Dispersion Control System for Sounding Rockets

Abstract

High altitude sounding rockets have always presented a problem to small test ranges such as WSMR because of rocket dispersion. This report presents a strap-on dispersion control system employing a 16-bit microprocessor as its brains that requires only software changes to accommodate different sounding rocket vehicles. Mostly the report contains a detailed explanation of the electronic hardware used, and the software developed, for a Paiute-Tomahawk sounding rocket.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 04, 1976
Accession Number
ADA027530

Entities

People

  • James R. Pickell

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Actuators
  • Air Force
  • Assembly Languages
  • Automatic Pilots
  • Clocks
  • Computers
  • Control Panels
  • Control Systems
  • Difference Equations
  • Dispersions
  • Electronics
  • High Altitude
  • Language
  • Object Code
  • Rockets
  • Sounding Rockets
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems