Anti-Ballistic Missile Laser Predictive Avoidance of Satellites : Theory and Software for Real- Time Processing and Deconfliction of Satellite Ephemerides with a Moving Platform Laser

The Anti-Ballistic missile Laser (ABL) project is committed to defense against attack from enemy-launched missiles using an airborne laser platform. Wielding a laser of this scope requires that collateral satellites be protected from accidental illumination during operational use. The Predictive Avoidance algorithm is designed to predict the path of a given laser firing sequence, and perform real-time deconfliction with the ephemerides of a given set of satellites. This thesis establishes the theoretical framework of this algorithm, and develops a modular software package that can be incorporated into the fire-control system of ABL to perform real-time forecasting within given time and error budgets.Air Force Inst of Tech Wright-Patterson AFB OH is the author of 'Anti-Ballistic Missile Laser Predictive Avoidance of Satellites : Theory and Software for Real- Time Processing and Deconfliction of Satellite Ephemerides with a Moving Platform Laser', published 1999 under ISBN 9781423546238 and ISBN 1423546237.