METHOD OF CONTROLLING ROCKET FLIGHT DURING FLIGHT TESTS Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC F42B15/01 

FIELD: physics; control.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to rocket engineering and can be used to control rocket flight during flight tests. The method includes constantly inspecting, during the entire period of time from mounting the rocket on the launching pad until launching the rocket, using an on-board radar system for remote probing the Earth, the standard and predicted destruction sites of the rocket as a result of possible accidental change in the flight trajectory; detecting, at both sites, the appearance of unauthorised objects whose existence is endangered during self-destruction of the rocket; detecting and identifying the unauthorised objects; simultaneously entering into the programmed flight control system a command to delay the self-destruction; transmitting a command to delay self-destruction of the rocket or guiding the rocket to a safe place if, at the time of launching the rocket, the unauthorised objects are still located at one of the rocket destruction sites; launching the rocket; determining current coordinates and motion parameters of the rocket; calculating the probable trajectory; generating and transmitting to the rocket commands to change the flight trajectory; constantly transmitting to the command centre data on the state of the environment on the route of test flights; predicting possible accidental changes in the flight trajectory which lead to contamination of the Earth's surface, water bodies and air; transmitting to the rocket commands to either continue flight towards the target or deviate from the trajectory and destroy the rocket in an area with minimal damage to the environment.

EFFECT: invention ensures safety for unauthorised objects located at a predicted rocket destruction site.

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