Radar system that will help guide Gemini spacecraft into rendezvous with orbiting target vehicle; radar system uses interferometer techniques for measurement of angles, supplies digital range, and angle information to spacecraft computer as well as analog range and range rate data to astronauts; command link integrated with radar gives astronauts control over target vehicle throughout rendezvous mission. (See also Microwave J v 8 n 6 June 1965 p 39-42, 44-5)
Gemini rendezvous radar
IEEE -- Technical Paper
IEEE Meeting of 11th East Coast Conference on Aerospace and Navigational Electronics ; 1964 Rendezvous
IEEE -- Tech Paper ; n 1.3.2
1964
11 pages
Conference paper
English
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