Mass Property Verification of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar.

摘要

The NASA Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) program has developed an external store flight-test article for repeat pass interferometry missions aboard an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Most of the UAVSAR pod flight instrumentation, structure, and outer shell were developed and designed from scratch in collaboration with Total Aircraft Services (TAS) (Van Nuys, California), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (Pasadena, California), and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center giving the uncommon opportunity to compare the computer aided design (CAD) model mass properties with the results of a final product measurement.