Lightning Protection Guidelines for Aerospace Vehicles
Lightning Protection Guidelines for Aerospace Vehicles

Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-06

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781720613206

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This technical memorandum provides lightning protection engineering guidelines and technical procedures used by the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Electromagnetics and Aerospace Environments Branch for aerospace vehicles. The overviews illustrate the technical support available to project managers, chief engineers, and design engineers to ensure that aerospace vehicles managed by MSFC are adequately protected from direct and indirect effects of lightning. Generic descriptions of the lightning environment and vehicle protection technical processes are presented. More specific aerospace vehicle requirements for lightning protection design, performance, and interface characteristics are available upon request to the MSFC Electromagnetics and Aerospace Environments Branch, mail code EL23.Goodloe, C. C.Marshall Space Flight CenterLIGHTNING; PROTECTION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; AEROSPACE VEHICLES; WAVEFORMS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HARDWARE; FLIGHT INSTRUMENTS

Lightning Protection of Aircraft
Lightning Protection of Aircraft

Author: Franklin Fisher

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2012-07-13

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9781478241522

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This book is an attempt to present under one cover the current state of knowledge concerning the potential lightning effects on aircraft and that means that are available to designers and operators to protect against these effects. The impetus for writing this book springs from two sources- the increased use of nonmetallic materials in the structure of aircraft and the constant trend toward using electronic equipment to handle flight-critical control and navigation function.

Lightning Protection of Aircraft
Lightning Protection of Aircraft

Author: Franklin A. Fisher

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13:

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"This book is an attempt to present under one cover the current state of knowledge concerning the potential lightning effects on aircraft and the means that are available to [aircraft] designers and operators to protect against these effects."--p. iii.

Natural Interference Control Techniques. Part I: Lightning Protection of Aerospace Rocket Vehicle Launching Systems
Natural Interference Control Techniques. Part I: Lightning Protection of Aerospace Rocket Vehicle Launching Systems

Author: M. M. Newman

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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Alternative approaches in lightning protection of diverting a direct lightning strike to some distance away, or shielding sensitive equipment to withstand a direct stroke can be usefully combined for maximum protection. Lightning strokes to diversionary rods or towers still leave intense transient magnetic fields to contend with, as well as possible large ground currents in control cables. Shielding of all conductors and associated 'black boxes' of equipment is theoretically possible if resistance of cable sheaths and connector joints can be kept low enough. A possible combination approach in a ground installation is to "invite" nearby strokes to a central high point over a 'bird cage' wire assembly surrounding the launching system thus guiding the lightning current symmetrically so that the magnetic fields inside cancel to approach in effectiveness a complete "Faraday cage" with reasonable feasibility as to practicality and cost, for most cases of lightning to ground strokes which are nearly vertical. Slanting strokes or nearby strokes and intense EM waves would require some horizontal interconnecting wires as well. In cases of dry sandy terrain improved additional lightning protection may be necessary even for buried cables as indicated in illustrative test demonstrations.