The Army Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile (LEAP) program achieved a significant milestone in execution of the LEAP 2 Space Flight Test on June 19, 1992 at White Sands Missile Range. The primary objective of the LEAP 2 Flight Test was to demonstrate hit to kill intercept performance against a non-boosting target. Although intercept of the target was precluded by degraded test conditions, the data from this space test successfully validated the performance of the kill vehicle in a space environment. All test objectives were achieved except the intercept. The kill vehicle tracker, guidance, electronics, propulsion, inertial sensors, battery, and telemetry worked as predicted. Data from the space test has been used to validate kill vehicle simulation models.
Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile (LEAP) Space Flight Test, June 1992, Performance Validation
1993
11 pages
Report
No indication
English
Military Sciences , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Ammunition, Explosives, & Pyrotechnics , Ballistic missile intercept systems , Kinetic energy projectiles , Test and evaluation , Simulation , Flight testing , Electronics , Antimissile defense systems , Kill probabilities , Space environments , Validation , Test methods , Tracking , Targets , Inertial systems , Interceptors , Space flight , Exosphere , Kill mechanisms , Telemeter systems , Bmdo collection , U4662 , Leap(Lightweight exoatmospheric projectiles)
Army Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile (LEAP)
AIAA | 1992
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NTIS | 1992
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