ELECTRO-OPTICAL ATTITUDE MEASURING SYSTEM. A DESIGN STUDY.
Abstract
A design study is presented to investigate a method of electro-optically determining the attitude of a missile from lift-off to 50,000 feet. The attitude in terms of pitch, yaw, and roll is obtained from a single station by lasers illuminating two missile borne retroreflector packages. Each retroreflector package has as one of its components a Savart plate. The reflected radiation is returned to the receivers where the beams are separated and analyzed by a polarization sensitive system to determine polarization states induced at the Savart plates as the missile's attitude changes. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0428002