# IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

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• ### [Front cover]

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s): c1
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• ### IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Group

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s): nil1
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• ### [Breaker page]

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s): nil1
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• ### From the Editors

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s): 381
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• ### Reliability Predictions and System Support Costs

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):382 - 389
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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A case study demonstrates that spares requirements based on operational reliability predictions result in the system being undersupported during its burn-in and useful-life phases by average factors of 42.2 and 4.22, respectively. However, systems spares requirements based on logistics estimates result in the system being oversupported during its burn-in phase by an average factor of 4.26 with thi... View full abstract»

• ### Determination of Measurement Limits to Optimize Production Losses

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):390 - 399
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The dollar consequence functions associated with consumer's and producer's risks are developed and optimized through use of computer technology. The bivariate normal distribution is used to compute the probabilities resulting from establishment of test limits inside or outside of specffication limits after the manner of Grubbs and Coon [1] and Eagle [2]. Methods of application and precautions duri... View full abstract»

• ### Optimum Power Division for Phase-Modulated Deep-Space Communications Links

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):400 - 409
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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Optimum power division is required in deep-space communications links to maximize transmission range or data rate and to permit efficient performance of both carrier tracking and data reception functions. A simple, graphical technique has been developed for phase-modulated links to determine the particular set of peak phase deviations, or modulation indexes, which results in an optimum power divis... View full abstract»

• ### Free-Flight Models in Wind Tunnels

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):410 - 416
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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A radio telemetry system is described which permits the acquisition of aerodynamic data from free-flight models in wind tunnels. Small transistorized telemeters are used. The telemeters are frequency modulated by either variable-capacitance pressure transducers or by variable-resistance heat-transfer transducers. The models are generally recovered intact after tunnel runs, allowing repeated runs u... View full abstract»

• ### The Lunar Orbiter Attitude Control Simulator

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):417 - 423
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Testing the attitude control system of the LUNAR ORBITER was accommplished in an air-bearing facility specifically designed for that purpose. This facility was designed to minimize external disturbances in the platform by seismic motion of the floor, mass deflection of the platform, turbine torques from the air bearing, and thermal currents in the room. The facility was used for the System Design ... View full abstract»

• ### Instrumentation of a Pilot Counterflow Facility

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):424 - 432
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In the VKF Counterflow Facility a small test model is launched upstream through the test section flow of a shock tunnel, thus producing relative velocities greater than that of either single component. This facility is presently capable of simulating model velocities greater than 30 000 ft/s (9.2 km/s) and altitudes from 50 000 to 200 000 ft (15.2 to 61 km). Instrumentation systems and components ... View full abstract»

• ### Measuring Techniques Applied in an MHD-Augmented Shock Tunnel

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):433 - 440
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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The determination of the detailed performance of an MHD-augmented high-enthalphy shock tunnel requires the simultaneous measurment of a large number of aerodynamic, electrical, and electromagnetic parameters in a test time interval of the order of several hundred microseconds. In the feasibility study currently being conducted in our laboratory of such a device, an extensive measuring system was s... View full abstract»

• ### A Quasi-Optic Imaging Resonator for Plasma Diagnostics

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):441 - 446
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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A new resonant quasi-optic interferometer has been developed which has a unique capability to deduce spatial information about perturbing plasma media. The fundamental property of the resonator is that it is multiply degenerate. Its geometry consists of four spherical mirrors arranged in a confocal ring configuration such that the transverse modes are simultaneously resonant. Energy is coupled int... View full abstract»

• ### Signal Acquisition Techniques for Receiving Arrays of Large-Aperture Antennas

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):447 - 459
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This paper considers the signal phase acquisition problem for arrays of large-aperture steerable antennas. In particular, long-range signal acquisition is considered for those cases in which the signal-to-noise ratio in each antenna-receiver channel is too low to permit signal phase-lock in each individual receiver. Techniques are discussed which promise to extend the array acquisition sensitivity... View full abstract»

• ### Magnetically Driven Shock-Tube Flow Studies at High Velocities

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):460 - 464
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An attempt to employ a magnetically driven shock tube as a tool for aerodynamic studies of high velocity and high enthalpy flows is described. Examples of results are given. View full abstract»

• ### Measuring Rotational Motion with Linear Accelerometers

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):465 - 472
Cited by:  Papers (48)  |  Patents (1)
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Inertial navigation systems usually use gyroscopes to sense angular motion and use accelerometers to sense linear acceleration. It is feasible, however, using only linear accelerometers as sensors, to determine both the angular velocity and the linear acceleration of a vehicle. This paper presents and compares five configurations of linear accelerometers which may be used to determine both the ang... View full abstract»

• ### Measuring Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation from High-Temperature Nitrogen

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):473 - 480
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In this technique, small blunt models are launched into a mixture of nitrogen and neon in a ballistic range, and the radiation from the shock layer on the forward face of the model is measured during the last few microseconds of flight by a radiometer directly in the flight path of the model. The ultraviolet radiation is sensed with the phosphor sodium salicylate. Comparison with other techniques ... View full abstract»

• ### Damping Gimballess Inertial Navigation Systems

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):481 - 493
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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The mechanization of a gimballess inertial system for space navigation is considered. An error analysis reveals that the errors contain both sinusoidal and diverging components. Error damping methods are proposed and it is shown that damping can be achieved by using appropriate damping circuits and auxiliary information obtained from devices such as stellar trackers, velocity-measuring optical Dop... View full abstract»

• ### Feedback Realization of a Continuous-Time Optimal Filter

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):494 - 509
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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Another derivation of a continuous-time optimal linear filter is presented. Using this result as a point of departure, a feedback version of this continuous filter is postulated and shown to be optimal in the limit as the feedback gain'' becomes infinite. It is then demonstrated that the need for this infinite feedback gain can frequently be eliminated. This feedback realization of the continuou... View full abstract»

• ### Radar Waveforms for Suppression of Extended Clutter

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):510 - 517
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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A common problem in waveform design is to adapt the transmitted signal to the target environment in order that the interference from extended fields of scatterers is reduced. This problem is investigated here for the special case of detection of a single target in the vicinity'' of an extended clutter space. The paper considers the possibility of confining the matched-filter response in delay an... View full abstract»

• ### A Superlimiting Phased-Array Receiving System in a Two-Source Environment

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):518 - 526
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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The performance of a uniformly spaced phased-steered line array with element channel superlimiting is studied for far-field sources consisting of 1) two sinusoidal signals with different frequencies and angular locations, and 2) a sinusoid and a noise signal at different angular locations. Attention is focused on the nonlinear case where internal noise is negligible compared to both input signals.... View full abstract»

• ### Everyman's Doppler Satellite Navigation System

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):527 - 554
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This paper describes a system of navigation by measurement of the Doppler shift in the radio transmissions from a near-Earth satellite, and simple equipment for making the measurements. It also shows that the current information which is needed by the navigator can be reduced to a number containing six decimal digits. Finally, it shows that the computations needed for the navigator to obtain a fix... View full abstract»

• ### Appendixes to "Continuous Time-Varying Optimal Feedback Applied to the Augmentation and Rapid Alignment of Inertial Systems''

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):555 - 560
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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The original paper was presented at the IEEE/G-AES Aerospace Systems Conference, Seattle, Wash., July 11-15, 1966, and was published (less Appendixes) in the Supplement to this Transactions, vol. 2, no. 4, PP. 661-678, July 1966. The four appendices cover: The White Noise Case; A Common Start-Up Problem; Revised Vector Error-Propagation Block Diagram; and Two-Dimensional Model of Inertial System f... View full abstract»

• ### How the government does business with private contractors [Penel Discussion]

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):561 - 573
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The following is the transcription of the tape recording of a seminar at the 1966 Aerospace and Electronics Systems Convention October 3, 1966. Session Chairman and Moderator: Major General Allen T. Stanwix-Hay, US Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (I&L). View full abstract»

• ### Comments on Monopulse Radars Excited by Gaussian Signals''

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s): 574
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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• ### On the Radar Echo from Aircraft

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):574 - 577
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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The nonstationarity of the low-frequency radar echo envelope observed from an aircraft is shown and a simple model of the echo is suggested. This model, devised specifically for simulation studies using computers, reproduces the characteristics of the observed envelope, demonstrating the correlation between the observed nonstationarity and aircraft motion relative to the receiver. View full abstract»

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IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems focuses on the organization, design, development, integration, and operation of complex systems for space, air, ocean, or ground environment.  These systems include, but are not limited to, navigation, avionics, spacecraft, aerospace power, radar, sonar, telemetry, defense, transportation, automated testing, and command and control.

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## Meet Our Editors

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Lance Kaplan
Army Research Laboratory