Description of system developed for United States Gemini-Agena rendezvous space flights; spacecraft interrogator radar transmits pulsed signal, radiated over continuous 70° cone; transponder of Agena vehicle transmits reply signal that is both delayed in time and shifted in frequency; frequency offset permits discrimination between transponder and reflected signals; time delay allows radar receiver to track target to essentially zero range.
Radar device for spacecraft rendezvous missions
Engineer
Engineer ; 220 , n 5724
1965
4 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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