This document details the background of a joint USAF and NASA project to upgrade forecast inputs at Cape Canavaral Forecast Facility (CCFF) in support of Space Shuttle operations at Eastern Test Range (ETR). Prior to the start of Shuttle operations, the CFF had been geared to support missile lauches with forecast requirements slanted toward pad safety (lightning, high wind, toxic diffusion) and upper wind shears. Shuttle support added problems of forecasting safe conditions (visibility, ceiling, crosswind, precipitation, turbulence) for Shuttle emergency landing immediately following a launch attempt, or for a normal end-of-mission landing at Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility. Keywords: Weather forecasting; MIDDS(Meteorological Interactive Data Display System).


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    Title :

    Application of the Meteorological Interactive Data Display System to Space Shuttle and Range Support at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFS


    Contributors:
    T. M. Myers (author) / B. F. Boyd (author)

    Publication date :

    1985


    Size :

    12 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English