Low mass velocity-aberration correcting retroreflector geodetic

Details Low mass velocity-aberration correcting retroreflector geodetic Low mass velocity-aberration correcting retroreflector geodetic

1995-04-05

1995-12-12

Barefoot, Galen L.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Spacecraft

With special crew accommodations

244167, 342 7, 3561523, B64G 136

Patent

active

054742641

ABSTRACT:
A spacecraft for geodetic applications designed to travel along a trajectory in an orbital plane around a planet, embodying at least one cube corner retroreflector designed to face the planet at least temporarily and having an apex, a normal, and three faces which are substantially orthogonal with respect to one another, to within an arcminute, forming three dihedral angles at substantially equal angular distances from this normal, the effective diameter of this cube corner being at least 3 centimeters, the apex being located, relative to the center of mass of the spacecraft, at a distance whose projection on an imaginary line joining the center of mass to the center of the planet remains at all times at a known value to within variations of less than 5 centimeters.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2746035 (1956-05-01), Norwood
patent: 3117318 (1964-01-01), Jones
patent: 3308464 (1967-03-01), Lewis
patent: 3480232 (1969-11-01), Wyatt
patent: 3567155 (1971-03-01), Gatlin et al.
patent: 3582020 (1971-06-01), Wrench
patent: 4241349 (1980-12-01), Connell
patent: 4964722 (1990-10-01), Schumacher
patent: 5097265 (1992-03-01), Aw
patent: 5202743 (1993-04-01), Lund et al.
NASA Report A-524-63-59, Feb. 13, 1959.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. GE-23 No. 4, pp. 398-413.
Raumfahrtforschung, vol. 13, Oct. 5, 1969, pp. 228-235.
La Recherche Spatiale, vol. 10, Oct. 5, 1971, pp. 15-18.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Low mass velocity-aberration correcting retroreflector geodetic does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Low mass velocity-aberration correcting retroreflector geodetic , we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Low mass velocity-aberration correcting retroreflector geodetic will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1355400