Accession Number:

AD0607575

Title:

SURVEY OF PRECISION ROTARY TABLES,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

TRW SPACE TECHNOLOGY LABS LOS ANGELES CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• POPELKA,M. F. ,Jr.

Report Date:

1960-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

19.0

Abstract:

This report was generated to satisfy a need for a survey of commercially available precision optical and mechanical rotary tables. The rotary tables catalogued and described here are frequently used as laboratory test platforms for the calibration and test of precision inertial components such as navigational gyroscopes and accelerometers of the type employed in missile and space vehicle development. Data are here tabulated on four basic types of rotary tables, plus a tilting rotary table modified for sidereal rate of rotation. Information includes such items as type, manufacturers cost, and method of readout. The brief concluding section may be found useful to anyone having to select a table for these applications.

Descriptors:

• *TEST EQUIPMENT
• *TABLES(DATA)
• TABLES(DATA)
• CALIBRATION
• LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
• OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS
• SPECIFICATIONS
• TEST METHODS
• INERTIAL GUIDANCE
• INSTRUMENTATION
• GYROSCOPES
• ACCELEROMETERS

Subject Categories:

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE