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Wild Gyrations. The satellite's twin sensing systems have already proved their worth. Last month, ERTS suffered a mysterious power surge that temporarily affected the stabilizing jets and caused wild gyrations. To protect the satellite's three RCA vidicon cameras (which make up one of the sensing systems), controllers at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center shut the cameras down until they could locate the problem and send new instructions to the satellite's computer. Meanwhile, the other system, a multispectral scanner built by Hughes Aircraft Co., was fully able to take up the observational slack...
...tape, with its endless rows of digits, told the men who could read it that Mariner seemed to be obeying the intricate orders built into it so many months before. According to plan, shortly after the scanning mechanisms sighted the planet, automatically activating the photo system, the six-inch vidicon tube focused through a reflecting telescope and took its first picture. It was programmed to take one picture every 48 seconds. Each picture was made up of 200 lines-compared with 525 lines on commercial TV screens. And each line was made up of 200 dots. The pictures were held...
...link has not been necessary, however, in most of the experiment carried out by other universities. These have mostly involved the transmission of a lecture delivered in one room to viewers seated in one or more other rooms. Technically, this transmission has proved entirely feasible. Through the use of vidicon television equipment rather than the familiar orthicon, the experimenters have managed to reduce costs considerably. Vidicon has a lower initial cost, a lower maintenance cost, and can be operated by less highly skilled personnel (i.e. students and others available on a university campus) than orthicon...
...Vidicon camera, a new type of TV camera...
This new use of TV was an experiment which the Radio Corp. of America hopes may soon revolutionize the yard techniques of U.S. railroads. Beside B. & O.'s main incoming track, RCA had set up a Vidicon camera, a new type of TV camera which RCA put on sale last week. The camera picked up the boxcar numbers, flashed them on a screen in the yard's four-story control tower. Another camera, set between the tracks (with floodlights) and aimed upward, inspected the passing cars for cracked truck frames, broken springs, missing journal-box lids, etc. Though...