Lightning Launch Commit Criteria.

Abstract

The Airborne Field Mill Project was jointly undertaken by the USAF and NASA during the winters of 1990, 1991, and 1992, and the summer of 1991 in order to gather in situ airborne field mill (ABFM) data to revise the USAF and NASA lightning Launch Commit Criteria (LCC) for manned and unmanned space launches. The Marshall Space Flight Center recommended changes to the lightning LCC based on their analysis of the ABFM data obtained under the Airborne Field Mill Project. A committee known as the Peer Review Committee (PRC) was formed 'To draft and finalize a subset of the Natural and Triggered Lightning Launch Commit Criteria' based on ABFM Program data.' This report documents the LCC recommended by the PRC in March 1994 and presented to the Chief Engineers Council of the USAF Space Materiel Command for their concurrence in August 1994.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA305539

Entities

People

  • Harry C. Koons
  • R. L. Walterscheid

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Airborne
  • Atmospheric Electricity
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Detectors
  • Electricity
  • Engineers
  • Flight
  • Lightning
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Microelectromechanical Systems
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Space Flight
  • Space Systems

Readers

  • Ballistic Missile Meteorology
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Space