An experimental approach for the captive flight ground-testing of a prototypical exoatmospheric kinetic kill vehicle is described. The primary objective of the test is to evaluate target tracking and intercept guidance control algorithms. Test hardware is described, including the vehicle; the suspension, launch, and recovery systems; the hyper-velocity target simulator; and the diagnostics systems. Initial test results are reported.


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    Title :

    Captive flight testing of a kinetic kill vehicle


    Contributors:
    R. H. Worrell (author) / M. A. Summers (author) / V. P. Brugman (author) / L. F. Weaver (author) / J. R. Etter (author)

    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    27 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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