Middle Atmosphere Density and Models.

Abstract

The 80 to 130 km altitude region is our old 'ionosphere' - the region of the atmosphere that no one seems to be interested in, and yet the critical region for shuttle entry and atmospheric braking. Comparison between the Air Force reference atmosphere and Shuttle IMU data shows large fluctuations at high latitudes. New data sources are available new, such as the Arecibo and Millstone Hill ionospheric scatter radars. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 09, 1987
Accession Number
ADA179059

Entities

People

  • K.s. Champion

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Altitude
  • Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric Density
  • Classification
  • Continents
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geophysics
  • Gravity Waves
  • High Latitudes
  • Latitude
  • Security
  • Space Flight
  • Spacecraft
  • Workshops

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.