Horizon-sensing sextant measures the altitude of an orbiting spacecraft without gravitational reference by optically measuring the dip angle to the horizon along a line of sight in each of two planes. The sextant scans over a relatively limited field of view.
Sextant measures spacecraft altitude without gravitational reference
01.04.1966
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British Library Conference Proceedings | 2016
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