Impact of winds to space launch vehicle include Design, Certification Day-of-launch (DOL) steering commands (1)Develop "knockdowns" of load indicators (2) Temporal uncertainty of flight winds. Currently use databases from weather balloons. Includes discrete profiles and profile pair datasets. Issues are : (1)Larger vehicles operate near design limits during ascent 150 discrete profiles per month 110-217 seasonal 2.0 and 3.5-hour pairs Balloon rise time (one hour) and drift (up to 100 n mi) Advantages of the Alternative approach using Doppler Radar Wind Profiler (DRWP) are: (1) Obtain larger sample size (2) Provide flexibility for assessing trajectory changes due to winds (3) Better representation of flight winds.


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    Title :

    Quality Control Algorithms and Proposed Integration Process for Wind Profilers Used by Launch Vehicle Systems


    Contributors:
    R. Decker (author) / R. E. Barbre (author)

    Publication date :

    2011


    Size :

    10 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English