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Aerospace

Since our first days as an independent organization, RAND has had researchers exploring ways to improve spacecraft. Today, this work continues as analysts examine issues related to communications satellites and private space industry.

Research Brief

Life After Cutbacks: Tracking California's Aerospace Workers

Contrary to popular belief, workers in California's aerospace industry weathered the defense budget reductions of the late 1980s and early 1990s in no worse shape than their nonaerospace durable manufacturing counterparts in the state.

Jan 1, 1996
Report

Life After Cutbacks: Tracking California's Aerospace Workers

Researchers tested the assumption that aerospace workers had suffered greater employment hardships than workers in comparable nonaerospace industries.

Jan 1, 1996
Report

GPS-Aided Guidance for Ballistic Missile Applications: An Assessment

The proliferation of Third World ballistic missiles is a major concern for the U.S. government. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of U.S. control policies as they pertain to ballistic missiles, focusing on those with ranges of 300-1000 km.

Jan 1, 1996
Research Brief

California's Small Aerospace Suppliers: Surviving Defense Downsizing

Much of California's small aerospace supplier base has survived the slide in Pentagon business, turning to commercial customers and other lines of production, increasing their productivity and, if necessary, reducing their work forces.

Jan 1, 1996
Report

Concept-Level Analytical Procedures for Loading Nonprocessing Communication Satellites with Direct-Sequence, Spread-Spectrum Signals

Concept-Level Analytical Procedures for Loading Nonprocessing Communication Satellites with Direct-Sequence, Spread-Spectrum Signals

Jan 1, 1996
Report

Concept-Level Analytical Procedures for Loading Nonprocessing Communication Satellites with Nonantijam Signals

Presents the analytical procedures and mathematical formulations required to construct a computer model of a military communication satellite system, load it efficiently with the radio signals required to support an operational scenario ...

Jan 1, 1996
Report

Mutual Interference in Fast-Frequency-Hopped, Multiple-Frequency-Shift-Keyed, Spread-Spectrum Communication Satellite Systems

This report presents the results of a theoretical analysis of a frequency-hopping, multiple-frequency-shift-keyed, spread-spectrum communication system using a nonprocessing communication satellite transponder.

Jan 1, 1996
Testimony

Promoting Commercial Space Activity

Statement before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, July 24, 1996.

Jan 1, 1996
Report

GPS Targeting Methods for Non-Lethal Systems

Reviews the wide array of possible non-lethal concepts and separates their employment depending on target class.

Jan 1, 1996
Report

Operational issues for GPS-aided precision missiles

Operational issues for GPS-aided precision missiles

Jan 1, 1996
Report

Opportunities Created by GPS for U.S. Defense, Commercial, and Foreign Policy Interests

Since the Global Positioning System (GPS) was originally deployed to aid U.S. armed forces in navigation and position location, it has evolved into a resource supporting civil, scientific, and commercial functions—from air traffic control to the Internet—with precision location and timing information.

Dec 1, 1995
Journal Article

IFOG Technology for Gyrocompass Applications

Interferometric fiber optic gyros (IFOGs) were fabricated and evaluated to demonstrate the feasibility of their use as rotation rate sensors within replacement gyrocompass systems.

Jun 1, 1995
Research Brief

A Policy Direction for the Global Positioning System: Balancing National Security and Commercial Interests

The evolution of GPS into an information system with a substantial international user community has raised complex policy questions for U.S. decisionmakers on a variety of issues affecting national defense, commerce, and foreign policy.

Jan 1, 1995
Journal Article

Interferometric Fiber Optic Gyroscope with Inertial Navigation Performance Over Extended Dynamic Environments

In this paper we report on the bias, scale factor, and input axis alignment performance of the inertial navigation fiber optic gyroscope over extended, dynamic temperature environments.

Mar 1, 1994
Report

Linking Space Exploration Programs to National Goals

Space programs extend over long periods of time and require considerable financial investment.

Jan 1, 1994
Report

Modeling Global Positioning System Effects in the TLC/NLC Model

Presents a design for incorporating Global Positioning System (GPS) into RAND's theater-level combat or nonlinear combat (TLC/NLC) model, which is used for policy analysis of military operations.

Jan 1, 1994
Report

The National Aerospace Plane: Cost Considerations for the Follow-on Vehicle

The United States and other countries have been pursuing the development of hypersonic technologies and experimental vehicles to demonstrate technical feasibility of aircraft-like operations for future space launch vehicles. Ultimately, the usefulnes...

Jan 1, 1994
Journal Article

Inertial Navigation Performance of an IFOG Over Dynamic Environments

Inertial navigation performance of an interferometric fiber optic gyro has been demonstrated over extended environments.

Oct 1, 1993
Journal Article

Estimating Spares Requirements for Space Station Freedom: Using the M-SPARE Model

In this guide, we describe the M-SPARE methodology, operation, and analytical capabilities.

Jul 1, 1993
Report

Recommended Strategy for the Army's Role in Space

This Note lays out a recommended strategy for the Army's role in space, drawing on research the Arroyo Center has performed in this area over the past seven years. The document argues that the Army should make supporting the battlefield commander its...

Jan 1, 1993

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