Demonstration and evaluation of ADS-B technology for commercial space operations onboard reusable sub-orbital launch vehicles
| Autor: | Massood Towhidnejad, Nick Demidovich, Dominic Tournour, John DiNofrio, Richard S. Stansbury, Chuck Greenlow, Dave Edwards |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Flexibility (engineering)
Sounding rocket Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast business.industry Computer science ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS Track (rail transport) National Airspace System Expendable launch system Global Positioning System Systems engineering business Space vehicle Simulation |
| Zdroj: | 2014 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS) Conference Proceedings. |
| DOI: | 10.1109/icnsurv.2014.6820023 |
| Popis: | To enhance the flexibility and responsiveness of commercial space operations, improved surveillance techniques are required to track the ascent and descent of a space vehicle through the national airspace system. In this paper, a prototype UAT Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (or ADS-B) transmitter developed by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for research purposes is presented. The past flight history and design of this prototype is briefly discussed. Next, the experimental results of a flight onboard a commercial reusable launch vehicle (RLV) that functions similar to a sounding rocket is presented and analyzed. The paper concludes with a discussion of possible future work in adapting ADS-B to support commercial space operations for not just reusable launch vehicles, but other commercial space transportation vehicles as well. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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