Flight termination system | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/06/2019

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_safety


00:01:31 1 Flight termination
00:05:48 2 Thrust termination
00:06:18 3 Soviet/Russian space program
00:07:15 4 ESA
00:07:55 5 Launch corridor
00:10:02 6 Applications
00:10:22 6.1 United States
00:10:31 6.1.1 Eastern and Western Ranges
00:12:45 6.1.2 Range safety in US manned spaceflight
00:14:04 6.1.3 Autonomous flight termination
00:17:08 7 See also



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In the field of rocketry, range safety may be assured by a system which is intended to protect people and assets on both the rocket range and downrange in cases when a launch vehicle might endanger them. For a rocket deemed to be off course, range safety may be implemented by something as simple as commanding the rocket to shut down the propulsion system or by something as sophisticated as an independent Flight Termination System (FTS), which has redundant transceivers in the launch vehicle that can receive a command to self-destruct then set off charges in the launch vehicle to combust the rocket propellants at altitude. Not all national space programs use flight termination systems on launch vehicles.
In the US space program, range safety is usually the responsibility of a Range Safety Officer (RSO), affiliated with either the civilian space program led by NASA or the military space program led by the Department of Defense, through its subordinate unit the Air Force Space Command. At NASA, the range safety goal is for the general public to be as safe during range operations as they are in their normal day-to-day activities.RSOs are also present in the hobby of model rocketry and then are usually responsible for ensuring a rocket is built correctly, using a safe engine/recovery device, and launched correctly.