The National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1968 undertook the development of a very large and complex interplanetary spacecraft. Each spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and a lander. Each orbiter was to provide support for the landers as well as independent scientific studies. In support of these objectives each orbiter carried twin camera systems having identical 475mm f/3,5 telescopes. The telescopes were all spherical catadioptric cassegrains in in design using Mangin primary mirrors. The telescopes had high theoretical and measured performance and many high quality images of the Martian surface were obtained.
Optical System Of The Visual Imaging Subsystem On The Viking Orbiter Spacecraft
Instrumentation in Astronomy III ; 1979 ; Tucson,United States
Proc. SPIE ; 0172
03.05.1979
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
The Viking Orbiter Visual Imaging Subsystem
NTRS | 1976
|The Viking Orbiter Visual Imaging Subsystem
AIAA | 1976
|The Viking Orbiter Visual Imaging Subsystem
AIAA | 1976
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