GPS based prediction of the instantaneous impact point for sounding rockets

• Published in: Aerospace Science and Technology
• Main Authors: Montenbruck, Oliver, Markgraf, Markus, Jung, Wolfgang, Bull, Barton, Engler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2001
• Subjects: Raumflugbetrieb und Astronautentraining; Kiruna; Esrange; Orion
• Online Access: http://elib.dlr.de/21415/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/

As part of the range safety operations during a sounding rocket launch, a real-time prediction of the instantaneous impact point (IIP) is performed to monitor the expected touch down point in case of a boost termination. Supplementary to traditional radar tracking, the IIP prediction is nowadays bas...