Advanced Range Safety System for High-Energy Vehicles. Meeting Paper 17_5256, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

Claxton, Jeffrey S. and Linton, Donald F. (2002) Advanced Range Safety System for High-Energy Vehicles. Meeting Paper 17_5256, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

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Abstract

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.

EPrint Type:	Other
Keywords:	Debris field, Dynamic impact limit line, Impact limit line, Impact point, Impact prediction, Mission boundary line, Mission planning, Range safety, Risk assessment
Subjects:	(01 - 09) Aeronautics: (03) Air Transportation And Safety
ID Code:	1217
Deposited On:	29 January 2007
Additional Information:	9 pages. 11th AIAA/AAAF International Conference on Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies, Orleans, France, September 29–October 4, 2002.