A summary is presented of basic lightning characteristics/criteria for current and future NASA aerospace vehicles. The paper estimates the probability of occurrence of a 200 kA peak lightning return current, should lightning strike an aerospace vehicle in various operational phases, i.e., roll-out, on-pad, launch, reenter/land, and return-to-launch site. A literature search was conducted for previous work concerning occurrence and measurement of peak lighting currents, modeling, and estimating probabilities of launch vehicles/objects being struck by lightning. This paper presents these results.
Lightning Characteristics and Lightning Strike Peak Current Probabilities as Related to Aerospace Vehicle Operations
1998
10 pages
Report
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Englisch
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1999
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