Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System (ALOTS), developed by Nortronics Div for U S Air Force, operates on modified KC-135 jet transport at altitudes of 40,000 ft to provide film coverage of missile launch, staging, and re-entry; in ALOTS system, 200-in. focal length telescope coupled to television tracking system follows missile automatically, and is expected to yield resolution of less than 2 sec of arc on 70% of exposed frames; description of camera optics and operation of system.


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    Title :

    ALOTS advances airborne tracking


    Additional title:

    Missiles Rockets


    Contributors:
    Pay, R. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1965


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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