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The Acquisition and Processing of Data from the Ariel 1 and Ariel 2 Satellites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

E. B. Dorling
E. B. Dorling*
Affiliation:
Formerly UK Ariel 2 Project Manager, Space Research Management Unit, Science Research Council, now at the Milliard Space Science Laboratory, Department of Physics, University College, London
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Summary

The first two US/UK co-operative satellites, Ariel 1 and Ariel 2, were put into orbit in April 1962 and March 1964, and both functioned most successfully. The lecture describes the NASA Pulsed Frequency Modulated telemetry system, including the methods used to store and transmit the data to ground stations, the digitising techniques used to prepare these data for entry into a computer and, finally, the organisation of the central data handling operations to the point where the partially or wholly reduced results were handed over to the various experimenters for analysis.

Type
All-Day Symposium on Trials Data and their Handling
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 671 , November 1966 , pp. 997 - 1006
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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