Accession Number:

AD0612091

Title:

ACQUISITION COORDINATE COMPUTATION FOR TRACKING AND SURVEILLANCE SENSORS PROGRAM DOCUMENT

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

PHILCO NEWPORT BEACH CA AERONUTRONIC DIV

Personal Author(s):

• Schinnerer, R. G.
• Thompson, D. R.

Report Date:

1964-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

156.0

Abstract:

The Observing Schedule Program OBSERV is programmed for the Philco 2000 computer and is to be part of the B-3 Semi-Automatic Program System SPS at the SPADATS Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It functions in conjunction with the Executive Program and receives its input from the Schedule, SEAI and FAN input tapes. OBSERV has been developed to compute sets of acquisition coordinates for stations with fixed beam surveillance devices and sensors that can track satellites. The capability to handle phased array trackers of the ANFPS-85 type has also been included. For surveillance devices, the program computes the time and coordinates of beam penetration by all satellites requested on the input tape. For tracking devices, the program calculates acquisition coordinates at evenly spaced intervals of time, as specified by the input, during the periods that a satellite is within the tracker coverage.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• *SPACE SURVEILLANCE
• ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES
• DATA PROCESSING
• DIGITAL COMPUTERS
• MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION
• ORBITS
• TRACKING

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE