Report presents theoretical and experimental studies directed toward development of optoelectronic instrument to measure density of air at altitudes from 50 to 90 km and possibly beyond. Instrument mounted in Space Shuttle orbiter and operated during reentry into atmosphere. Data gathered by instrument needed because density of upper atmosphere highly variable in space and time and this variability affects aerodynamic behavior and trajectory of reentering Shuttle. Variations in density also meteorologically significant.
Measuring Density Of Air By Ultraviolet Rayleigh Scattering
NASA Tech Briefs ; 17 , 4
1992-04-01
Miscellaneous
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English
Planar Air Density Measurements near Model Surfaces by Ultraviolet Rayleigh-Raman Scattering
Online Contents | 1994
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