The Space industry demand for lighter and cheaper launcher transport systems. The upcoming EU project DESICOS (New Robust DESIgn Guideline for Imperfection Sensitive COmposite Launcher Structures), which will start in 2012, contributes to these aims by a new design procedure for imperfection sensitive composite launcher structures, exploiting the worst imperfection approach efficiently by imple...

A main goal of a Ship Of Opportunity Programme (SOOP) is the provision of temperature profiles in near real time. The use of commercial ships and expandable probes allows the reduction of costs, in comparison with research ship cruises. A major cost effectiveness is achieved using an automated multiple launcher, requiring minimum personnel effort. A multiple launcher, developed in the framework...

We describe a new temporal verification framework for safety and robustness analysis of nonlinear control laws, our target application being a space launcher vehicle. Robustness analysis, formulated as a nonconvex nonlinear optimization problem on admissible trajectories corresponding to piecewise polynomial dynamics, is relaxed into a convex linear programming problem on measures. This infinit...

The gas-curtain launch is designed to address the shortcomings of conventional underwater launchers, such as poor dependability and low muzzle velocity. In this paper, influence jet structures on propulsion performance internal flow field an launcher investigated. To conduct experiment a small-aperture launcher, three projectiles with different were designed. experimental results show that proj...

GRID-launcher-1.0 was built within the VO-Tech framework, as a software interface between the UK-ASTROGRID and a generic GRID infrastructures in order to allow any ASTROGRID user to launch on the GRID computing intensive tasks from the ASTROGRID Workbench or Desktop. Even though of general application, so far the GridLauncher has been tested on a few selected softwares (VONeural-MLP, VONeural-S...

The ferromagnetic material launcher is a coilgun that launches magnetically permeable material. This technology has both military and scientific applications such as defense, space launches, train travel, etc. This project uses principles of magnetic fields, electric circuitry, computer programming, and mobile application software in order to achieve the project goals; these being the FML capab...