Open AccessRelationship of Worldwide Rocket Launch Crashes with Geophysical Parameters
Author(s) -
N. V. Romanova,
N. B. Crosby,
Vyacheslav Pilipenko
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.253
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1687-8868
pISSN - 1687-885X
DOI - 10.1155/2013/297310
Subject(s) - space weather , rocket (weapon) , meteorology , earth's magnetic field , sunspot number , launch vehicle , space launch , latitude , space (punctuation) , geophysics , environmental science , geology , solar wind , aerospace engineering , geography , solar cycle , computer science , physics , geodesy , engineering , quantum mechanics , magnetic field , operating system
A statistical comparison of launch crashes at different worldwide space ports with geophysical factors has been performed. A comprehensive database has been compiled, which includes 50 years of information from the beginning of the space age in 1957 about launch crashes occurring world-wide. Special attention has been paid to statistics concerning launches at the largest space ports: Plesetsk, Baikonur, Cape Canaveral, and Vandenberg. In search of a possible influence of geophysical factors on launch failures, such parameters as the vehicle type, local time, season, sunspot number, high-energy electron fluxes, and solar proton events have been examined. Also, we have analyzed correlations with the geomagnetic indices as indirect indicators of the space weather condition. Regularities found in this study suggest that further detailed studies of space weather effects on launcher systems, especially in the high-latitude regions, should be performed
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