Emerging trends in Instrumentation in rocket motor testing over three decades

Abstract

Rocket motors are designed, developed, and evaluated for its performance. After repeated tests, they are qualified for use in a launch vehicle or missile system. Comprehensive instrumentation measurement plan is made to record physical parameters during evaluation and testing. In the last thirty years, a revolution has happened in the field of electronics that has benefited instrumentation in terms of accuracy, bandwidth, capacity, reliability and analysis. This paper describes the improvements in instrumentation that have happened in the field of rocket motor testing over a period of last three decades.