HAYSTACK POINTING SYSTEM: SATELLITE ACQUISITION

Abstract

Haystack Pointing System consists of hardware and software which points the Haystack 120-foot X-band antenna dish with great accuracies. The Satellite Acquisition program, described in this report, generates acquisition scans and searches for target returns. Once the target has been sighted, the program tracks the target by conical scanning. After acquisition, time correction can be made in the orbit computations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 30, 1966
Accession Number
AD0632489

Entities

People

  • R. Teoste

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accuracy
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Computations
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Conical Scanning
  • Core Storage
  • Data Processing
  • Instructions
  • Interpolation
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Scanning
  • Three Dimensional
  • X Band

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites
  • Space - Space Objects