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Summary Of: AZUSA

AZUSA dated back to the early 1950s and was named after the southern California town... The AZUSA radar interferometer tracking system employs two receiving points on the ground and comparing the phases... created the AZUSA tracking system for the Army... of the Atlas radio guidance system and the Azusa and Glotrac launch vehicle tracking systems... The AZUSA ground station determined the vehicle transponder... The AZUSA system supplies continuous... Advanced AZUSA systems can be used for vehicle commands... advanced AZUSA systems can perform guidance functions... Azusa inflated antenna enclosures... Azusa inflated antenna enclosures... of interferometry led to the development of the Azusa tracking system as part of the Army Air Corps NUL... the Azusa team had built an interferometer operating at 148... early 1950s when the Navy picked up the Azusa interferometer work for its Viking project at White Sands... The AZUSA tracking radar was used to monitor initial phases of launch for the Saturn S... AZUSA Mark II Ground Station Block Diagram... AZUSA Mark II Ground Station Block Diagram... AZUSA is a radar interferometer tracking system which determines the position of a vehicle... Two AZUSA stations were in operation during the Saturn... The AZUSA system provided real... AZUSA stations cover only a portion of the Saturn V powered flight trajectory... is determined at the AZUSA ground stations by measuring range... AZUSA Mark II Antenna Layout... AZUSA Mark II Antenna Layout... The antenna layout of the AZUSA MK II station consists of two crossed baselines... AZUSA Transponder block diagram... AZUSA Transponder block diagram... Both existing AZUSA stations may be considered as part of GLOTRAC... transponder in the vehicle is interrogated by an AZUSA ground station or by a GLOTRAC transmitter site... AZUSA Ground Station Mark II Transmitted power... Weaver and a colleague invented the AZUSA continuous wave tracking system... One of the advantages of the Azusa system over its predecessors was that it required fewer radar sites and operating crews...

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