A silicon vidicon camera was designed, built, and tested to determine its potential for use aboard future Mariner spacecraft. Slow scan operation is made possible by cooling the vidicon to -40 C. Cooling is achieved by a simple thermal condition path between the vidicon and a radiator mounted on top of the camera head. The camera was successfully operated under simulated space flight conditions and has survived vibration designed to simulate the launch of a Mariner spacecraft. A description of the camera and its operation along with the results of the testing is presented.
A silicon vidicon camera for slow scan operation
1973-07-01
Miscellaneous
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English
NIMBUS ADVANCED VIDICON CAMERA SUBSYSTEM
NTRS | 1962
|NTRS | 1976
|Multispectral vidicon camera study (Studie ueber vielspektralvidicon-kamera
Tema Archive | 1968
|NTIS | 1969
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