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Two color satellite laser ranging upgrades at goddard's 1.2m telescope facility
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Varghese, Thomas K. McGarry, Jan F. Degnan, John J. Zagwodzki, Thomas W. |
| Copyright Year | 1993 |
| Description | The ranging laboratory at Goddard's 1.2 m telescope tracking facility has recently been upgraded to include a single photoelectron sensitive Hamamatsu streak camera-based range receiver which uses doubled and tripled Nd:YAG frequencies for satellite laser ranging. Other ranging system upgrades include a new continuum laser, which will deliver up to 30 millijoules (mJ) at both 532 and 355 nm at a pulsewidth of 30 picoseconds (FWHM), and replacement of both ranging and tracking computers with COMPAQ 386 based systems. Preliminary results using a photomultiplier-tube based receiver and waveform digitizer indicate agreement within the accuracy of the measurement with the theoretical Marini and Murray model for atmospheric refraction. Two color streak camera measurements are used to further analyze the accuracy of these and other atmospheric refraction models. |
| File Size | 565827 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19940011108 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t07x19d8m |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1993-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Optical Tracking Streak Cameras Atmospheric Models Yag Lasers Color Photomultiplier Tubes Waveforms Rangefinding Accuracy Satellite Tracking Telescopes Mathematical Models Photoelectrons Atmospheric Refraction Laser Applications Analog To Digital Converters Neodymium Lasers Laser Range Finders Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
