Shapiro, I. I.

The Prediction of Ballistic Missile Trajectories from Radar Observations.

New York: 1958. Reissued 7 April 1958. Hardcover. vi, 208, [2] pages. Footnotes. Formulae, Figures. Tables. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is an ex-library work with usual markings. Previous owner's mailing label affixed to inside of front cover. Name stamped on bottom edge. Ink notation there as well. The author was with Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This report has as its main concern an investigation of methods for predicting properties of a ballistic missile trajectory. The predictions are based on information obtained from radar observations of the missile. In general, the totality of different radar measurements provides redundant date, i.e. provides more data that the minimum necessary to dynamically specify a trajectory. Irwin Ira Shapiro (born October 10, 1929 in New York City) is an American astrophysicist and Timken University Professor at Harvard University. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1982. He was the director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1982 to 2004. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory in 1954 and became a professor of physics there in 1967. In 1982, he took a position as professor and Guggenheim Fellow at his alma mater, Harvard, and also became director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. In 1997, he became the first Timken University Professor at the university. Shapiro's research interests include astrophysics, astrometry, geophysics, gravitation, including the use of gravitational lenses to assess the age of the universe. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Radar, Ballistic Missiles, Trajectory, Satellite Orbit Prediction, Doppler Measurements, Polygon Approximation, Error Analysis, Earth Oblateness, Osculating Ellipse, Milne's Method

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