Suborbital Rockets in Safety & Defense Applications

• Authors: Tomasz Noga

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents benefits from using suborbital rockets in safety & defense applications. The paper describes suborbital rockets and their contribution to modern science, research and technology development. A historical view of suborbital rockets and their applications in safety & defense roles is discussed. Chosen research & development activities, military exercises and air defense systems’ tests performed using suborbital rockets in various countries are listed and described based on a literature review of publicly available sources. The paper presents capabilities of Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Aviation in the field of suborbital rockets. A development of ILR-33 AMBER 2K rocket reaching flight speeds over Mach 4 and optimized to reach 100 km altitude is described with comment regarding its applicability in safety & defense applications supported by flight simulations.

Keywords

EN

rocket; safety and defense systems validation; sounding rocket; suborbital launch vehicles

PL

rakieta; walidacja systemów BHP; rakieta brzmiąca; suborbitalne pojazdy nośne

• Publisher: Centrum Rzeczoznawstwa Budowlanego Sp. z o.o.
• Journal: Safety & Defense
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 65-79

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Tomasz Noga

• Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation, Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.37105/sd.146

Biblioteka Nauki

2010341