Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry
The technology of atmospheric reentry was a consequence of the Cold War. Ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons were legacies of World Wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aerial Warfare: Encyclopedia - Aerial Warfare
Aerial warfare is the use of aircraft and other flying machines for the purposes of warfare. Having developed from using unpowered observ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ivan A. Getting: Encyclopedia Ii - Ivan A. Getting - Biography And Positions Held
Ivan A. Getting was born on 18 January 1912 in New York City and grew up in Pittsburg, PA. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Tec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Terminology Definitions And Jargon
Over the decades since the 1950s, a rich technical jargon has grown around the engineering of vehicles designed to enter planetary atmosp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Terminology Definitions And Jargon
Over the decades since the 1950s, a rich technical jargon has grown around the engineering of vehicles designed to enter planetary atmosp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aerial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Aerial Warfare - World War Ii
Military aviation came into its own during the Second World War. The increased performance, range, and payload of contemporary aircraft m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Warfare - Naval Warfare
Industrial warfare - Ironclads and Dreadnoughts. The period after the Napoleonic Wars was one of intensive experimentation with new tec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Terminology Definitions And Jargon
Over the decades since the 1950s, a rich technical jargon has grown around the engineering of vehicles designed to enter planetary atmosp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Terminology, Definitions And Jargon
Over the decades since the 1950s, a rich technical jargon has grown around the engineering of vehicles designed to enter planetary atmosp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Thermal Protection Systems
Atmospheric reentry - Ablative. The type of heat shield that best protects against high heat flux is the ablative heat shield. The abla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Feathered Reentry
In 2004, aircraft designer Burt Rutan demonstrated the feasibility of an alternative or complementary approach to atmospheric reentry wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Shock Layer Gas Physics
An approximate rule-of-thumb used by heat shield designers for estimating peak shock layer temperature is to assume the air temperature i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Bibliography
Atmospheric reentry - Publications referenced in Atmospheric Reentry. ^ J. A. Fay and F. R. Riddell, "Theory of Stagnation Point ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Blunt Body Entry Vehicles
These four shadowgraph images represent early re-entry vehicle concepts. A shadowgraph is a process that makes visible the disturbances t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - History's Most Difficult Atmospheric Entry
The highest speed controlled entry so far achieved was by the Galileo Probe. The Galileo Probe was a 45° sphere-cone that entered Jupite...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Entry Vehicle Shapes
There are several basic shapes used in designing entry vehicles: Atmospheric reentry - Sphere or spherical section. The simplist axisym...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - History's Most Difficult Atmospheric Entry
The highest speed controlled entry so far achieved was by the Galileo Probe. The Galileo Probe was a 45° sphere-cone that entered Jupite...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Entry Vehicle Shapes
There are several basic shapes used in designing entry vehicles: Atmospheric reentry - Sphere or spherical section. The simplist axisym...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Shock Layer Gas Physics
An approximate rule-of-thumb used by heat shield designers for estimating peak shock layer temperature is to assume the air temperature i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aerial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Aerial Warfare - Balloon Warfare
Some minor use was made of balloons in the 18th and 19th Century. The first instance was by the French Aerostatic Corps at the Battle of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Thermal Protection Systems
Atmospheric reentry - Ablative. The type of heat shield that best protects against high heat flux is the ablative heat shield. The abla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Blunt Body Entry Vehicles
These four shadowgraph images represent early re-entry vehicle concepts. A shadowgraph is a process that makes visible the disturbances t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ivan A. Getting: Encyclopedia Ii - Ivan A. Getting - Major Technical And Administrative Contributions
While at MIT Radiation Laboratory, Getting’s group developed the first automatic microwave tracking fire control radar, the SCR 584. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Feathered Reentry
In 2004, aircraft designer Burt Rutan demonstrated the feasibility of an alternative or complementary approach to atmospheric reentry wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Reference Books
Martin, John J., "Atmospheric Entry - An Introduction to Its Science and Engineering," Prentice-Hall, Old Tappan, NJ, (1966). Regan, Fran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Entry Vehicle Design Considerations
There are four critical parameters considered when designing a vehicle for atmospheric entry: Peak heat flux Heat load Peak deceleration...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Entry Vehicle Design Considerations
There are four critical parameters considered when designing a vehicle for atmospheric entry: Peak heat flux Heat load Peak deceleration...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Reference Books
Martin, John J., "Atmospheric Entry - An Introduction to Its Science ane Engineering," Prentice-Hall, Old Tappan, NJ, (1966). Regan, Fran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Blunt Body Entry Vehicles
These four shadowgraph images represent early re-entry vehicle concepts. A shadowgraph is a process that makes visible the disturbances t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Entry Vehicle Shapes
There are several basic shapes used in designing entry vehicles: The simplist axisymmetric shape is the spherical section. The spherical ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Shock Layer Gas Physics
An approximate rule-of-thumb used by heat shield designers for estimating peak shock layer temperature is to assume the air temperature i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Ablative Heat Shields
The type of heat shield that best protects against high heat flux is the ablative heat shield. The ablative heat shield functions by lift...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Introduction
The technology of atmospheric reentry was a consequence of the Cold War. Ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons were legacies of World Wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aerial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Aerial Warfare - Post World War Ii
Military aviation in the post-war years was dominated by the needs of the Cold War. The post-war years saw the almost total conversion of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aerial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Aerial Warfare - Before World War I
The armies of many countries evaluated the use of aircraft for observation purposes. Naval aviation was pursued as well; several tests we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aerial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Aerial Warfare - World War I
Initially during that war both sides made use of tethered balloons and airplanes for observation purposes, both for information gathering...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aerial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Aerial Warfare - Between The Wars
Between 1918 and 1939 aircraft technology developed very rapidly. In 1918 most aircraft were biplanes with wooden frames, canvas skins, w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Thermal Soak Heat Shields
Thermal soak is a part of almost all TPS schemes. For example, an ablative heat shield loses most of its thermal protection effectiveness...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Passively Cooled Heat Shields
In some early ballistic missile RVs, e.g. the Mk-2 and the sub-orbital Mercury spacecraft, radiatively cooled TPS were used to initially ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Warfare - Communications
Industrial warfare - Equipment. Aldis lamp International maritime signal flags ... See also:Industrial warfare, Industrial warfare ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Warfare - Land Warfare
Industrial warfare - Rifles and Artillery. Rifling Industrial warfare - Static Defense. Trench warfare Industrial warfare - Mane...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Warfare - Aerial Warfare
The first use of aeroplanes in war was the Italo-Turkish War of 1911, when the Italians carried out several reconnaissance and bombing mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Warfare - Transportation
Industrial warfare - Land. Motorized infantry Mechanized infantry Industrial warfare - Sea. Sealift Industrial warfare - Air. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Warfare - Conscription
Conscription allowed the French Republic to form the Grande Armee, what Napoleon Bonaparte called "the nation in arms", which successfull...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Actively Cooled Heat Shields
Various advanced reusable spacecraft and hypersonic aircraft designs have been proposed to employ heat shields made from temperature-resi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Feathered Reentry
In 2004, aircraft designer Burt Rutan demonstrated the feasibility of an alternative or complementary approach to atmospheric reentry wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Entry Vehicle Design Considerations
There are four critical parameters considered when designing a vehicle for atmospheric entry: Peak heat flux Heat load Peak deceleration...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Warfare - Nuclear Warfare
The use of nuclear weapons first came into being during the last months of World War II, with the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima a...   » Read the article