This thesis determined the feasibility of developing a 16-inch, gun-launched anti-satellite weapon. The general performance capability of rocket-and scramjet-boosted, gun-launched vehicles is examined with regards to propelling a miniature homing vehicle to a satellite intercept altitude. Rocket and scramjet boost vehicle performance is modeled and optimum trajectories are determined. A low gun elevation at launch and a pop-up manuever are required to maximize the scramjet boost vehicle acceleration potential. The rocket boost vehicle is capable of intercepting a low altitude satellite without a pop-up manuever from a gun elevation of 45 degrees. Both boost methods provide apogees consistent with the intercept of known Soviet Electronic Intelligence Ocean Reconnaissance satellites, EORSAT, and Radar Ocean Reconnaissance satellites, RORSAT. (Author)
16-Inch Gun-Launched Anti-Satellite Weapon
1982
95 pages
Report
No indication
English
Missile Guidance & Control Systems , Unmanned Spacecraft , Antimissile Defense Systems , Rocket assisted projectiles , Defense systems , Reconnaissance satellites , Gun launched , Feasibility studies , Supersonic combustion ramjet engines , Booster rocket engines , Flight maneuvers , Homing devices , Intercept trajectories , Optimization , USSR , Military forces(Foreign) , Mathematical models , Theses , Antisatellite , EORSAT(Elint Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite) , ELINT(Electronic Intelligence) , RORSAT(Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite) , Scramjets , Pop up manuevers. PE62702E
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