Development of Kill Assessment Technology for Space-Based Applications

作者：Erlandson Robert E; Taylor Jeff C; Michaelis Christopher H; Edwards Jennifer L; Brown Robert C; Swaminathan Pazhayannur K; Kumar Cidambi K; Hargis C Bryon; Goldberg Arnold C; Klatt Eric M; O'Marr Greggory L

来源：Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, 2010, 29(3): 289-297.

This article briefly describes the development of optical kill assessment technology at APL in support of ballistic missile defense applications. After providing a definition of kill assessment, we review the physics associated with target intercept signatures and the approach we have taken to model the signatures resulting from an intercept event. We discuss the development of both an engineering model and a high-fidelity model that we have developed to predict intercept signatures. Next we briefly describe the development of imaging, spectrographic, and polarimetric sensors used to collect signatures of intercept events. These sensors were integrated on the 1.6-m telescope at the Maui Space Surveillance Site, and they successfully collected data during ballistic missile flight tests. Ultimately, this technology effort led to the foundation of a technical approach to develop space-based kill assessment sensors.

• 出版日期2010