An empirical method for estimating unmanned spacecraft program costs.
Unmanned spacecraft program costs estimation through empirical studies of past and current NASA programs
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Unmanned spacecraft program costs estimation through empirical studies of past and current NASA programs
Unmanned spacecraft program costs estimation through empirical studies of past and current NASA programs
Mechanical properties used to estimate low cycle fatigue behavior in creep range of components in high-temperature systems
High temperature low cycle creep range strain fatigue behavior estimation from tensile and stress rupture properties
Tiros medium resolution scanning radiometer data from short and long wavelengths used to estimate cloud top temperatures, cloud cover, emissivity, and equivalent black body temperatures
Metal alloys high temperature low cycle strain fatigue resistance in creep range estimated from tensile and stress rupture data
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Estimation of residual matrix composition of nickel-base superalloys by phase diagram analysis
Estimating thermal conductivity values from compression of multilayers in tank insulation
Lunar interior electrical conductivity estimated using lunar interaction with solar wind and interplanetary electric and magnetic fields
Calculating improved shock normals using least squares technique on combined magnetic field and plasma data from single spacecraft
Shock normal calculation by applying least squares technique to combined geomagnetic field and plasma data from single satellite, assuming Rankine-Hugoniot conservation relations
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Semiempirical correlations have been developed between solubility parameters and refractive indices for series of model hydrocarbon compounds and organic polymers. Measurement of intermolecular forces is useful for assessment of material compatibility, glass-transition temperature, and transport properties.
By assuming the validity of a subset of the Rankine-Hugoniot conservation relations for interplanetary (IP) shocks in an isotropic medium it has been demonstrated, in principle, that improved shock normals can be calculated by using a least-squares technique on combined magnetic field and plasma data from a single spacecraft. The scheme uses those six conservation relations not involving pressure and temperature. This paper deals with a test of the scheme by examining in detail a shock across which the magnetic field changed direction by a small amount (approximately 10 deg). On January 26, 1968 at about 1430 UT this shock was observed by the plasma and magnetic field instruments in Explorers 33 and 35. The spacecraft were 76.6 and 56.9 R sub E sunward of the earth, respectively (and 43.5 R sub E from each other), and therefore well outside the earth's bow shock region, a necessary condition for a valid test.
Aerosols of KBr and AgNO3 were mixed, exposed to light in a glass tube and collected in the dark. About 15% of the collected material was reduced to silver upon development. Thus, two aerosols of particles that react to form a photo-reducible compound can be used to measure coagulation efficiency.
A proportion estimation procedure is presented which requires only on set of ground truth data for determining the error matrix. The error matrix is then used to determine an unbiased estimate. The error matrix is shown to be directly related to the probability of misclassifications, and is more diagonally dominant with the increase in the number of passes used.
Cosmic ray exposure ages of ejecta from Copernican craters in various stages of erosion can be used to construct a curve from which the time of formation of craters in the Copernican System can be estimated on the basis of their morphology. Use of this curve to estimate the flux for particles that formed 75-1000 m craters during six increments of Copernican time in an area of Mare Serenitatis suggests that the flux has steadily increased throughout Copernican time. These results are considered to be preliminary until more work of this kind has been done for other mare areas of the moon.