Abstract The replacement of OMEGA station G from Trinidad to Australia has recently caused some problems for balloon navigation in the United States. We report on recent experience with OMEGA during a balloon flight of the hard X-ray astronomy payload HEXE1) This High Energy X-ray Experiment is operated jointly by the Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) in Garching and the Astronomisches Institut Tübingen (AIT) from Palestine, Texas on September 28/29, 1981. In this flight three different OMEGA receivers were used. In view of the degraded receiving conditions for OMEGA we have developed a simple slant range system which may easily be adapted to other standard PCM systems. We show that a combination of range, azimuth and one OMEGA line of position (e.g. C-D) provides reasonably accurate balloon positions.


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    Titel :

    Navigation for balloon payloads: Recent experience with OMEGA in the US and a new slant range system


    Beteiligte:
    Kendziorra, E. (Autor:in) / Götz, E. (Autor:in) / Staubert, R. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1983-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    5 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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