The Minitrack Network was the first U.S. satellite tracking network to become operational, in 1957. It was used to track the flights of Sputnik, Vanguard, Explorer, and other early space efforts. Minitrack was the progenitor of Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) and the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN).
The Minitrack Network was the first U.S. satellite tracking network to become operational, in 1957. It was used to track the flights of Sputnik, Vanguard...
Geophysical Year (IGY) scientific satellites, and a 5 mW, 108.03 MHz Minitrack transmitter powered by six solar cells were used as part of a radio phase-comparison...
first US system, Minitrack, was already in existence at the time of the Sputnik launch, but the US quickly discovered that Minitrack could not reliably...
Satellite Program. Instrumentation included: Laser Tracking Reflectors NASA Minitrack System Optical Beacon System Radio Doppler System Radio Range/Rate System...
included: C-Band Radar Transponder Laser Tracking Reflector Magnetometer NASA Minitrack System Optical Beacon System Precipitating Electron Detector Radio Doppler...
ground. This seems a far cry from Minitrack and satellite tracking, but phase comparison, the essence of Minitrack, was there.[citation needed] Within...
constructing, and testing the satellites. The tracking system was called Minitrack. The Minitrack stations, designed by NRL but subcontracted to the Army Corps of...
Probably this detection of the Explorer 1 signal was actually made at the Minitrack station at Brown Field, a US Navy airfield near San Diego. This station...
Digital slave worked by receiving primary tracking data from the NASA Minitrack network of stations. The computer would then issue antenna-pointing commands...
centers at Goddard and around the world. Prior to the advent of NASCOM, the Minitrack network—used to track the flights of Sputnik, Vanguard, Explorer, and...
space-to-ground communications. The network was the “follow-on” to the earlier Minitrack, which tracked the flights of Sputnik, Vanguard, Explorer, and other early...
were deployed into orbit simultaneously. Data was obtained by NASA's Minitrack communications network in cooperation with the USAF. The TRS Mk. 2 design...
2009 and 2011. The NRL designed the first satellite tracking system, Minitrack, which became the prototype for future satellite tracking networks. Prior...
Tracking Station Island Lagoon Tracking Station Woomera, SA United States Minitrack Radio Tracking Station Baker-Nunn Camera Optical Tracking Station. Project...
the Social Networking and Community minitrack at HICSS, and the Learning Analytics and Networked Learning minitrack, now titled Social Media and Learning...
micrometeorite detector, and data encoder, above which was the 30 mW, 108.00 MHz Minitrack beacon transmitter. Another cylinder, mounted on top of the pressurized...
1950s the United States Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard Minitrack system used electronic signals emitted by Sputnik and other satellites...
technologies from Canada. Some of Canada’s first contributions were for a “Minitrack” Satellite Tracking Station as well as the design and fabrication of a...
Vanguard, developing the Vanguard rocket and satellite, along with the Minitrack satellite tracking network. The Air Force Western Development Division...
Radiation Incorporated's AN/TLM-18 Space Sentry at Camp Evans was used for minitrack. The Army Photo-optics Laboratory opened at Camp Evans in 1963. Most Deal...
information they provided was complemented by the radio tracking program called Minitrack the United States Navy operated as well as some information from amateur...
Conference on. IEEE, 2005. Van Grembergen, Wim. "Introduction to the Minitrack." System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International...
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