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.
ALOTS advances airborne tracking
Missiles Rockets
Missiles and Rockets ; 17 , n 21
1965
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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