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)


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    Title :

    Gemini rendezvous radar


    Additional title:

    IEEE -- Technical Paper


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    IEEE Meeting of 11th East Coast Conference on Aerospace and Navigational Electronics ; 1964 Rendezvous


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1964


    Size :

    11 pages


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    Gemini rendezvous radar

    Vester, B.H. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1964


    Gemini rendezvous radar

    Quigley, W.W. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1965


    GEMINI RENDEZVOUS RADAR

    QUIGLEY, WILLIAM | AIAA | 1963


    Gemini rendezvous radar system design

    Vester, B.H. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1966


    Gemini Rendezvous

    J. R. BURTON AND W. E. HAYES | AIAA | 1966