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The precision trackerThe precision tracker, a simultaneous lobing, amplitude-comparison, passive, continuous-wave tracker based in principle and design upon a monopulse tracking radar, is employed at the Andover, Maine, and Pleumeur-Bodou, France, stations to find the satellite and direct the horn-reflector antennas when required and, at regular intervals during subsequent passes, to provide the precise tracking data required for prediction of future orbital parameters.
Document ID
19640000980
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Contribution to a larger work
Authors
J. V. Anders (Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
E. F. Higgins, Jr. (Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
J. L. Murray (Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
F. J. Schaefer, Jr. (Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
Date Acquired
August 2, 2013
Publication Date
February 25, 1963
Publication Information
Publication: Telstar I
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Volume: NASA-SP-32/Vol.2
Issue Publication Date: June 1, 1963
URL: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19640000973
Subject Category
Computers
Accession Number
64N10889
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
ORBIT CALCULATION
HORN ANTENNA
SATELLITE TRACKING

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