Title :
The Apollo Lunar Television System
Author_Institution :
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Houston, Texas
fDate :
6/1/1965 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A limited, spacecraft transmission bandwidth has been used in the development of the Apollo Lunar Television system. Using 10 frames/sec and 320 non-interlaced scan lines, the system provides nearly commercial-quality TV pictures. A portable TV camera employing microcircuits is used onboard the spacecraft and on the lunar surface. Reiterative processing of the video signal is used in the scan conversion of the slow-scan TV signal to obtain a flicker-free commercially compatible picture at the home television receiver.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Cameras; Interference constraints; Moon; NASA; Radio transmitters; Signal processing; Space vehicles; Surface topography; TV receivers;
Journal_Title :
Aerospace, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TA.1965.4319824
