Pointing And Guidance Of The Buss Telescope

W. C. Gibson; D. L. Guthals; J. W. Jensen; J. A. Eccher

doi:10.1117/12.953545

1 September 1972 Pointing And Guidance Of The Buss Telescope

W. C. Gibson, D. L. Guthals, J. W. Jensen, J. A. Eccher

Proceedings Volume 0028, Instrumentation in Astronomy I; (1972) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.953545
Event: Instrumentation in Astronomy, 1972, Tucson, United States

Abstract

Since the development of reliable polyethylene balloons, astronomers have had available to them, at a moderate cost, a vehicle capable of carrying payloads of a few thousand kilograms to altitudes from which observations could be made at wave-lengths inaccessible to the ground-based observer. To the designer of such an airborne observatory, the problems associated with the pointing and stabilization of telescopes and detectors are formidable. Since each new experiment requires a unique set of pointing specifications, there is little standardization in either the design techniques or the hardware.

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W. C. Gibson, D. L. Guthals, J. W. Jensen, and J. A. Eccher "Pointing And Guidance Of The Buss Telescope", Proc. SPIE 0028, Instrumentation in Astronomy I, (1 September 1972); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.953545

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