Part V — UKR-7 ground translator and programmer

The volume of information acquired in eight minutes of a test vehicle flight has been mentioned previously as amounting to approximately 100 million bits of information. This represents over 12 million data points to an accuracy of one part in 256. If this information were punched on cards it would require a storage space of about 134 cubic feet (Fig. 1). Obviously, much of this information is of no significance to the test engineer and may be eliminated, as it occurs, by utilizing a quick-look recording and the programmed translator.