Hypersonic vehicle telemetry blackout analysis

RP Starkey - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2015 - arc.aiaa.org
During certain hypersonic flight regimes, shock heating of air creates a plasma sheath,
resulting in telemetry attenuation or blackout. The severity of the signal attenuation is …

Modeling the performance of hypersonic boost-glide missiles

CL Tracy, D Wright - Science & Global Security, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The United States, Russia, and China are developing an array of hypersonic
weapons—maneuverable vehicles that carry warheads through the atmosphere at more …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of electron number densities on the radio signal propagation in an inductively coupled plasma facility

D Luís, V Giangaspero, A Viladegut, A Lani, A Camps… - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
Spacecraft entering a planetary atmosphere are surrounded by a plasma layer containing
high levels of ionization, due to the extreme temperatures in the shock layer. The high …

Modeling radio communication blackout and blackout mitigation in hypersonic vehicles

M Kundrapu, J Loverich, K Beckwith, P Stoltz… - Journal of Spacecraft …, 2015 - arc.aiaa.org
A procedure for the modeling and analysis of radio communication blackout of hypersonic
vehicles is presented. The weakly ionized plasma generated around the surface of a …

Characteristic of plasma sheath channel and its effect on communication

L Shi, B Guo, Y Liu, J Li - Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 2012 - jpier.org
The plasma sheath communication blackout issue for hypersonic or reentry vehicles is
addressed from a channel characteristic perspective. Different from previous research, this …

Simulation of electromagnetic wave propagation through plasma sheath using the moving-window finite-difference time-domain method

JF Liu, XL Xi, GB Wan, LL Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When a hypersonic vehicle reenters the Earth's atmosphere, plasma sheath generated by its
collision with ambient air affects the electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation. To understand …

Analyses of electromagnetic properties of a hypersonic object with plasma sheath

YX Sha, HL Zhang, XY Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a rigorous numerical approach for the electromagnetic (EM)
analyses of a hypersonic object with plasma sheath. First, the effective EM parameters of the …

Characterization of the dynamic effects of the reentry plasma sheath on electromagnetic wave propagation

G He, Y Zhan, J Zhang, N Ge - IEEE Transactions on plasma …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the dynamic effects of the reentry plasma sheath on electromagnetic
wave propagation from the viewpoint of communication. Both the spatial turbulence and the …

A new method for removing the blackout problem on reentry vehicles

RL Stenzel, JM Urrutia - Journal of Applied Physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Supersonic vehicles are surrounded by a plasma layer which produces a cutoff layer for
electromagnetic waves. Methods to remove the layer by gas releases, dc magnetic fields …

Influence of chemical kinetics models on plasma generation in hypersonic flight

P Sawicki, RS Chaudhry, ID Boyd - AIAA Journal, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
The accuracy and sensitivity of plasma generation predicted by several different chemical
kinetics models is investigated in the context of weakly ionized hypersonic flowfields around …