Flight Safety System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Operation

Abstract

The Range Safety Group (RSG) investigated options other than destruct for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying in the National Airspace (NAS) over populated areas and outside the range of local line-of-sight (LOS) flight termination system (FTS) transmitters. The objective of this special report was to develop an RCC standard for over-the-horizon (OTH) safe recovery of UAVs. The task considered requirements for global monitoring of UAV critical safety information and implementation of hazard control options such as reset flight control computer, uplink new route, change altitude, and override controls for UAV safe recovery operation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA640574

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Control Systems
  • Earth Orbits
  • Ground Stations
  • Line Of Sight
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Range Safety
  • Satellite Networks
  • Space Objects
  • Standards
  • Test Facilities
  • Unmanned
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

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  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers