Providing tropical cyclone weather support to space launch operations

27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Winters, Katherine A ^a   Weems, Johnny W ^a   Flinn, F Clay ^a   Kubat, Gary B ^a   Cocks, Stephen B ^a   Madura, John T ^b  

^a USAF   (United States)

^b KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT HARDWARE; FUNCTION OF TIME; LAUNCH OPERATIONS; LAUNCH PADS; POTENTIAL RANGE; PROTECTIVE ACTION; SHUT DOWN; SPACE LAUNCH; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS; WEATHER SUPPORTS;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HURRICANES; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; STORMS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TROPICS;

LAUNCHING;

EID: 84868054214     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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