Initial feasibility study of a microwave-powered sailplane as a high-altitude observation platform

Author:: Heyson, H. H.
Published:: Dec 1, 1978.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document

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It is shown that a microwave-powered sailplane can be a reasonable substitute for a satellite in some missions requiring only limited coverage of the surface of the earth. A mode of operation in which the aircraft cyclically climbs to high altitude in the beam, and then glides for several hundred kilometers, is feasible and takes advantage of the inherent forward speed of the sailplane at high altitude.

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AERODYNAMICS

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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.

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Document ID: 19790005844.
Accession ID: 79N14015.
NASA-TM-78809.

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