A real-time control system with video feedback for sounding rocket payloads
Abstract
NASA/Ames has developed a command system to control the attitude of a rocket payload from a ground-based site. The SPARCS command system allows a ground-based operator to adjust the attitude of a solar experiment in real time. The attitude relative to the desired target features on the sun is monitored visually from the ground through a video link using an on-board TV camera. The system has demonstrated rapid acquisition of solar features, resulting in a more optimal usage of the data gathering time of a sounding rocket payload, and has located solar features which could not be precisely located from preflight data.
- Publication:
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4th Sounding Rocket Technology Conference
- Pub Date:
- June 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976srt..conf..192M
- Keywords:
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- Attitude Control;
- Command And Control;
- Feedback Control;
- Real Time Operation;
- Remote Control;
- Sounding Rockets;
- Block Diagrams;
- Consoles;
- Data Acquisition;
- Magnetometers;
- Onboard Equipment;
- Television Cameras;
- Video Equipment;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking