Sensor Development Thermospheric Neutral Wind Measurements

Abstract

The final preparatory work toward the functional design of a flight sensor for neutral wind measurements has been completed. Extensive laboratory testing has been followed by digital control design that will allow the input drivers and the output currents to be assembled for delivery to the ground. A flexible format for energy discrimination in the retarding potential analyzer must allow for the expected geophysical variation in the velocity and temperature of the species. The instrument operation must also be synchronized to allow autonomous data reduction on the ground from a single packet of data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 16, 2003
Accession Number
ADA423272

Entities

People

  • Roderick A. Heelis

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Dallas

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Analyzers
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Detectors
  • Electron Multipliers
  • Electrons
  • Flight Instruments
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Satellite Orbits
  • Secondary Emission
  • Simulations
  • Space Sciences
  • Spacecraft
  • Technical Information Centers

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  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Plasma Physics.