Technical Papers

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis […]

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Validation With Triggered Lightning Measurements A fiber optic current sensor based on the Faraday Effect is developed that is highly suitable for aircraft installation and can measure total current enclosed in a fiber loop down to DC. Other attributes include being small, light-weight, nonconducting, safe from electromagnetic interference, and free of hysteresis

Direct Lightning Strikes to the Lightning Protective System of a Residential Building: Triggered-Lightning Experiments Lightning triggered from natural thunderclouds using the rocket-and-wire technique was employed in order to subject to direct lightning strikes the lightning protective system of a test house at the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing (ICLRT) at Camp Blanding, FL.

Direct Lightning Strikes to the Lightning Protective System of a Residential Building: Triggered-Lightning Experiments Lightning triggered from natural thunderclouds using the rocket-and-wire technique was employed in order to subject to direct lightning strikes the lightning protective system of a test house at the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing (ICLRT) at Camp Blanding, FL.

Direct Lightning Strikes to Test Power Distribution Lines—Part II: Measured and Modeled Current Division Among Multiple Arresters and Grounds The division of return stroke current among the arresters and groundings of two unenergized test distribution lines, one horizontally configured and the other vertically configured, was studied at the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing

Calculating the Lightning Protection System Downconductors’ Grounding Resistance at Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center A new Lightning Protection System (LPS) was designed and built at Launch Complex 398 (LC398), at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, which consists of a catenary wire system (at a height of about 181 meters above ground level) supported

A New Comprehensive Lightning Instrumentation System for Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida A new comprehensive lightning instrumentation system has been designed for Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This new instrumentation system includes the synchronized recording of six high-speed video cameras, currents through the nine downconductors of the new