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Advanced Range Safety System for High Energy Vehicles

Author
Linton, Donald F.
Published
September 2002.
Physical Description
1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Claxton, Jeffrey S.
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Summary
The advanced range safety system project is a collaboration between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States Air Force to develop systems that would reduce costs and schedule for safety approval for new classes of unmanned high-energy vehicles. The mission-planning feature for this system would yield flight profiles that satisfy the mission requirements for the user while providing an increased quality of risk assessment, enhancing public safety. By improving the speed and accuracy of predicting risks to the public, mission planners would be able to expand flight envelopes significantly. Once in place, this system is expected to offer the flexibility of handling real-time risk management for the high-energy capabilities of hypersonic vehicles including autonomous return-from-orbit vehicles and extended flight profiles over land. Users of this system would include mission planners of Space Launch Initiative vehicles, space planes, and other high-energy vehicles. The real-time features of the system could make extended flight of a malfunctioning vehicle possible, in lieu of an immediate terminate decision. With this improved capability, the user would have more time for anomaly resolution and potential recovery of a malfunctioning vehicle.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 20030067336.
H-2508.
Eleventh International Conference on Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies; 29 Sep. - 4 Oct. 2002; Orleans; France.
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