Abstract :
Optical reader systems can condense data at the rate of 650 lines per minute, using the flying-spot scanner technique. Flying-spot systems are not new, but they have been held back by component limitations. Excellent system components are now available, and FSSS is being used to convert images into electrical signals for high-speed transmission of complex scientific, business, and defense information to remotely located computers or readers. Recently, photographs of the moon were made by Orbiter I and stored on film, to be retrieved and transmitted on command to an earth receiving station by a flying-spot scanner system.
