Optical system, designed to monitor attitude of missile during early launch phase, uses passive reflective components mounted on missile to return pair of laser beams transmitted from ground station; beams have their polarization state modulated by reflective elements such that polarization is function of missile attitude; returned beams are passed through polarization analyzing system at ground station and missile attitude computed from measured polarization parameters.


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    Title :

    Missile attitude sensing with polarized laser beams


    Additional title:

    Canaveral Council Tech Soc -- Space Congress


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2nd Proceedings of Canaveral Council Technical Society -- Space Congress ; 1965 Control



    Publication date :

    1965


    Size :

    18 pages


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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