AERONAUTICAL TELEMETRY

Darrell ErnstJean-Claude Ghnassia

Gerhard Mayer9 September 2004

AERONAUTICAL TELEMETRY

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What You Will See and Hear

A video describing how aerospace vehicles are tested, what telemetry is and how telemetry is used

A brief view of how telemetry is used around the world

A brief description of how technology is used to send the telemetry measurement data to the ground station in the most spectrally efficient manner possible

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What is Telemetry?Telemetry : The process of measuring at a distance.

Aeronautical telemetry: The process of making measurements on an aeronautical vehicle and sending those measurements to a distant location for analysis

TemperaturesFlows

Vibrations

Velocities

Pressures

If it is ORANGE it is flight test measurement

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Aeronautical Telemetry

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Dr. Gerhard Mayer

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Science and Telemetry Goes Global…

Local changes of environmental parameters have a world-wide impact

Wide-area telemetry networks needed to collect data from e.g. remote field stations, balloons, buoys, sounding rockets, UAV

Specific ranges for launching, science observations and data collection worldwide available

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Region 1Kiruna, SwedenFormosa Bay, KenyaCoronie, SurinamBiscarosse, FranceSalto di Quirra, SardiniaAberporth, WalesZingst, GermanyEmba, Kazakhstan

Region 3Anna Plains, AustraliaChandapore, IndiaSonmiani, PakistanChiu Peng, TaiwanShuang Chenghzi, ChinaChangwon, S.KoreaMalute, PakistanWake, Marshall Islands

Region 2Tortuguero, Puerto RicoPunta Lobos, PeruFt.Yukon, AlaskaNanoose Bay, CanadaMar Chiquita, ArgentinaWallops, USAStromfjord, GreenlandPoker Flat, Alaska

Soundin g rocke t launch sites

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Telemetry Inevitable in Global Missions

Platforms on balloon, sounding rocket and UAV required forIn situ-measurements & callibration of satellite and ground

borne instruments

Examples of important disciplines : Geophysics

Atmosphere, Land , Sea, Ice Research

Biology Animal behaviour & wildlife research

Remote Medical Supervisionpatient monitoring e.g. at expeditions („bush telemetry“)

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Science Missions Requiring Wideband TM

Existing LEO-satellite data collection platforms only for narrow band data transmission (e.g. Argos, Orbcomm) available

Onboard storage capacity limited by space and weight, data compression & reduction of science data onboard critical

Data required on ground mostly in near-realtime

Therefore:High-resolution science instruments, like imaging sensors,

spectrometers, carried as Balloon, Sounding Rocket or UAV- payload need wideband telemetry links to fulfill their future missions

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M. Jean-Claude Ghnassia

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