Accession Number:

ADA241143

Title:

ZEST Flight Test Experiments, Kauai Test Facility, Hawaii

Descriptive Note:

Test rept.,

Corporate Author:

STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE ORGANIZATION WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Cenkci, Martha J.

Report Date:

1991-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

143.0

Abstract:

The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization SDIO is proposing to execute two ZEST flight experiments to obtain information related to the following objectives validation of payload modeling characterization of a high energy release cloud and documentation of scientific phenomena that may occur as a result of releasing a high energy cloud. The proposed action is to design, develop, launch, and detonate two payloads carrying high energy explosives. Activities required to support this proposal include 1 execution of component assembly tests at Space Data Division SDD in Chandler, Arizona and Los Alamos National Laboratory LANL in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and 2 execution of pre- flight flight test activities at Kauai Test Facility.

Descriptors:

• *FLIGHT TESTING
• PAYLOAD
• VALIDATION
• MODELS
• TEST METHODS
• ENERGY TRANSFER
• HIGH ENERGY
• RELEASE
• PARTS
• NEW MEXICO
• ARIZONA
• ASSEMBLY
• TEST FACILITIES
• HAWAII
• HIGH EXPLOSIVES
• CLOUDS

Subject Categories:

• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE