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.


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    Titel :

    Sextant measures spacecraft altitude without gravitational reference


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.04.1966


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Project SEXTANT

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