Description of the barium cloud vectoring systems developed for the PLACES test series

Technical Report · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:6406565

Finnell, R T

The PLACES experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of ionospheric plasmas (created by barium vapor released from rockets) on satellite communications and navigation systems. Launcher setting angles for the rockets were provided by a minicomputer system made up of four subsystems. This report describes the subsystems which determined the barium cloud vectors from TV data alone and from combined radar/TV data.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6406565
• Report Number(s): SAND-81-0483
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
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IONOSPHERE
BARIUM IONS
ROCKETS
MONITORING
CLOUDS
COMPUTER NETWORKS
LAUNCHING
ON-LINE CONTROL SYSTEMS
PLASMA
RADIOWAVE RADIATION
WAVE PROPAGATION
CHARGED PARTICLES
CONTROL SYSTEMS
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
IONS
ON-LINE SYSTEMS
PLANETARY IONOSPHERES
RADIATIONS
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990200 - Mathematics & Computers