The Apolitical and Political C.S. Lewis

Dyer, Justin Buckley; Watson, Micah

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“…Upset rates for the IBM Thinkpads used aboard Mir and Shuttle flights average one single event upset (SEU) every one to nine hours. Finally, commercial flights have been rerouted to more southerly latitudes and U-2 flights postponed or cancelled during periods of solar storms (2)(3)(4) .…”

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Impact of solar storms on high altitude long endurance unmanned aircraft and airship design and operations

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Aeronaut. j.

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This paper applies existing information on solar storms to unmanned aviation; no new research data is presented. The purpose of this paper is to alert the unmanned aviation community to the potential hazards posed by solar storms, to familiarise it with the effects of solar storms and how to mitigate them, and to encourage research on solar storm effects on high altitude long endurance (HALE) aircraft and airship design and operations. As unmanned aircraft and airships move increasingly into high altitude (50,000+ft), endurance (24+ hr) roles, they will become vulnerable to the effects of space weather, specifically that of solar storms. Although solar storms are commonly associated with their impact on satellites, they affect the routing and timing of airline flights flying for six to eight hours at 30,000 to 40,000ft. Operating twice as high and with flight times twice as long (or longer) than those of airliners, HALE aircraft and airships occupy a middle zone of vulnerability, being more so than airliners but less so than satellites. A key difference however is that satellites are designed for space weather, whereas some current HALE vehicles are not. The paper concludes that unmanned HALE aircraft and airships can be one to three orders of magnitude more vulnerable to solar storms than a trans-Pacific airliner.

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Section: Comparisons With Other Aircraftmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of solar storms on high altitude long endurance unmanned aircraft and airship design and operations

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2006

Aeronaut. j.

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The Apolitical and Political C.S. Lewis

Cited by 1 publication

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Impact of solar storms on high altitude long endurance unmanned aircraft and airship design and operations

Impact of solar storms on high altitude long endurance unmanned aircraft and airship design and operations

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