New System to Measure the Yaw and PitchAngles of Rocket in Launch Phase

Aim To describe a news system for measuring the and pitch angles of rocket during the launch phase Methods Optical system was to reflect the spot that represents the angular movement of rocket to the position sensitive detector that can convert analogue signal into digital one.Results Compared with conventional optical lever test system which had been applied to measure rocket attitude angle,the new system used the position sensitive detector to replace the screen and high-speed photographic instrumentation as grapher,which can avert photointerpretive data reduction and apply to field experiment more easily and pre- cisely .Conclusion Experimental results show that the test system can be used in measuring the yaw and pitch angles of rocket effectively.