Ultra-high impact resistant digital data recorder for missile flight testing

Author

Hill-Lindsay, Joseph W. ; Yuen, John T.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Syst. Integration, Northrop Grumman Corp., Hawthorne, CA, USA

Volume

17

Issue

3

fYear

1994

fDate

9/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

398

Lastpage

403

Abstract

A practical alternative to telemetry is being used during the flight testing of a new autonomous antitank munition for the capture of onboard test data. A unique crash-proof solid state flight data recorder (FDR) using nonvolatile flash EPROM memory was developed and extensively tested and has been successfully used on five full system flight tests to date. The FDR stores over 20 megabytes of flight data in the tactical missile´s warhead volume and retains all data even after a highspeed impact with steel armor plating. Serial digital data from the missile´s onboard processor and various onboard sensors is captured at a rate greater than 6 Mb/s

Keywords

EPROM; aerospace testing; data acquisition; data recording; military equipment; missiles; packaging; recorders; semiconductor storage; 20 Mbyte; 6 Mbit/s; autonomous antitank munition; crash-proof solid state recorder; digital data recorder; highspeed impact survival; missile flight testing; nonvolatile flash EPROM memory; onboard test data; serial digital data capture; ultra-high impact resistant recorder; Computer crashes; EPROM; Missiles; Nonvolatile memory; Solid state circuits; Steel; System testing; Telemetry; Vehicle crash testing; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology, Part A, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9886

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/95.311749

Filename

311749