Rooftop Antenna Pointing Program.

Abstract

This document provides a description of the in-house work performed in the Air Force Avionics Laboratory's Communication Systems Evaluation Laboratory (CSEL) to successfully point a ten-foot dish antenna at any earth orbiting satellite for which ephermeris data is available. Both the hardware and software aspects of the program are covered. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA047999

Entities

People

  • Paul F. Humel

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Communication Systems
  • Computers
  • Conversion
  • Digital Data
  • Elevation
  • Flight Paths
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Observers
  • Operating Systems
  • Satellite Communications
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Software Engineering
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites