The cosmic ray environment of tactical ABMs

Author

Solin, John R. ; Tylka, Allan J. ; Shea, Margaret A. ; Smart, Don F.

Author_Institution

Lockheed Martin Space Syst. Co., San Jose, CA, USA

Volume

52

Issue

2

fYear

2005

fDate

4/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

546

Lastpage

552

Abstract

The battlespace of tactical antiballistic missiles (TABMs) is mostly exoatmospheric and includes regions with negligible geomagnetic shielding, especially during geomagnetic storms. It is therefore necessary to harden TABMs against galactic cosmic ray (GCR) and solar particle event (SPE) induced single event effects (SEEs) and star tracker and focal plane array (FPA) glitches. The variability of the worldwide GCR and SPE exoatmospheric TABM environment is described.

Keywords

cosmic ray neutrons; focal planes; galactic cosmic rays; geophysical aspects of cosmic rays; magnetic storms; missiles; solar cosmic ray particles; atmospheric neutrons; avionics single event upset; exoatmospheric tactical antiballistic missiles; focal plane array glitches; galactic cosmic ray environment; geomagnetic shielding; geomagnetic storms; single event effects; solar particle event; star tracker; Aerospace electronics; Earth; Geomagnetism; Laboratories; Missiles; Particle tracking; Protons; Satellites; Single event upset; Storms; Atmospheric neutrons; SEU; avionics single event upset (SEU); single event effect; solar particle event;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2005.846883

Filename

1420733