Accession Number:

AD0728502

Title:

Prediction of Ballistic Missile Trajectories

Descriptive Note:

Memorandum rept.

Corporate Author:

STANFORD RESEARCH INST MENLO PARK CA

Personal Author(s):

• Kashiwagi, Yasutada

Report Date:

1968-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

53.0

Abstract:

A critical problem in a missile defense system is that of predicting the trajectory and impact point for a ballistic reentry vehicle. This memorandum will describe methods of prediction as well as numerical results for several representative examples. There are several reports describing the estimation of the states of a ballistic missile the ballistic trajectory and impact point will be predicted by using these estimated values.

Descriptors:

• *ANTIMISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS
• *GUIDED MISSILE TRAJECTORIES
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• EQUATIONS OF MOTION
• MATRICES(MATHEMATICS)
• ALGEBRA
• NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
• NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• INTEGRATION
• MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION
• IMPACT PREDICTION
• CURVE FITTING

Subject Categories:

• Antimissile Defense Systems
• Guided Missile Trajectories, Accuracy and Ballistics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE