Design of a single-axis platform for balloon-borne remote sensing
Abstract
The design of two telescope pointing systems for remote optical sensing of the stratosphere from a balloone-borne gondola is described. The telescope pointing accuracy is + or - 0.02 deg in elevation, from a gondola which has static and dynamic tilts up to + or - 3 deg. Each system consists of a telescope, an elevation control subsystem, and a pitch-stabilized single-axis reference platform.
- Publication:
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Review of Scientific Instruments
- Pub Date:
- October 1986
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1986RScI...57.2512C
- Keywords:
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- Balloon-Borne Instruments;
- Pointing Control Systems;
- Remote Sensing;
- Stratosphere;
- Systems Engineering;
- Telescopes;
- Calibrating;
- Elevation;
- Ground Tests;
- Instrumentation and Photography