A Helping Hand - Challenges of a Single Range Over-the-Horizon Support

Abstract

In today’s ever-growing aeronautical telemetry environment, it is important to seek and identify the possible challenges when going beyond in-capabilities of a single range. Each range is engaged in its own activities, however long range testing bring challenges to multiple ranges collaborating on a single test. Terrain of the flight path and limitations of COTS equipment for flight-testing telemetry continually cause head hurters for each individual range supporting common over-the-horizon events.