The flight path of a two-staged rocket (1) is periodically calculated during flight, and the estimated impact point when a first-stage rocket body (11) or a fairing (15) is separated and discarded is periodically calculated from a second-stage rocket (13) at each passing scheduled point in the predicted flight path. As long as there is a passing scheduled point such that the estimated impact points of the first-stage rocket (11) and the fairing (15) are both within the safe area, a process is periodically performed to designate the passing scheduled point safe and nearest to ILL of the two-staged rocket (1) as the separate-and-discard point of the first-stage rocket body (11), and when the two-staged rocket (1) reaches this separate-and-discard point, the first-stage rocket body (11) or the fairing (15) is separated and discarded.
CONTROL DEVICE FOR ROCKET
2017-01-19
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS |