Television camera for Mercury MA-9

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1963 Mar 19 - Nation: USA.
  • Television camera for Mercury MA-9 Program: Mercury. Spacecraft: Mercury. Flight: Mercury MA-9.

    The Manned Spacecraft Center received a slow-scan television camera system, fabricated by Lear Siegler, Incorporated, for integration with the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) mission.

    This equipment, weighing 8 pounds, could be focused on the pilot or used by the astronaut on other objects inside the spacecraft or to pick up exterior views. Ground support was installed at three locations - Mercury Control Center, the Canary Islands, and the Pacific Command Ship - to receive and transmit pictures of Cooper's flight. Transmission capabilities were one picture every 2 seconds.


    Bibliography:

    • Grimwood, James M., Project Mercury: A Chronology, NASA Special Publication-4001.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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