Remote platform power conserving system
Abstract
A system is described where an unattended receiver and transmitter equipped data collection platform is interrogated by a substantially polar orbiting satellite. The method and apparatus involve physically representing the orbit of the satellite and the spin of the planetary body with timers, and using these representations to turn on the platform's receiver only when the satellite should be in radio range of the platform, whereby battery power at the platform is conserved.
- Publication:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Report
- Pub Date:
- November 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974nasa.rept.....K
- Keywords:
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- Data Collection Platforms;
- Energy Conservation;
- Power Efficiency;
- Electric Batteries;
- Patents;
- Polar Orbits;
- Radio Range;
- Receivers;
- Satellite Orbits;
- Timing Devices;
- Transmitters;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles