K-2 Titan IV Stratospheric Plume Dispersion

摘要

Video images were recorded of the plume from the K-2 Titan IV launched 2 July1996 from Cape Canaveral Air Station. These images were used to infer plume motion and expansion near an altitude of 30 km in the stratosphere. The plume was observed to move across the sky in a generally east to west direction with a