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AMPLITUDE STEERED ANTENNA ARRAY

NASA Case No. GSC-11446

Canada, France, Germany,
Great Britain, Japan,
Netherlands

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Goddard Space Flight Center

Attn: Patent Counsel

Mail Code: 204

Greenbelt, MD 20771
U.S.A.

[Corresponding to U.S. Patent No. 3,806,932]

A spin stabilized satellite has an electronically despun antenna array comprising a multiplicity of peripheral antenna elements. A high gain energy beam is established by connecting a suitable fraction or array of the elements in phase. The beam is steered or caused to scan by switching elements in sequence into one end of the array as elements at the other end of the array are switched out. The switching transients normally associated with such steering are avoided by an amplitude control system. Instead of abruptly switching from one element to the next, a fixed value of power is gradually transferred from the element at the trailing edge of the array to the element next to the leading edge. Thus as the satellite rotates, power is reduced on one element and power is increased on the other element thereby avoiding switching transients and maintaining constant total array power at all times.

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RECORDER/PROCESSOR APPARATUS

NASA Case No. GSC-11553

Japan

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Goddard Space Flight Center
Attn: Patent Counsel

Mail Code: 204

Greenbelt, MD 20771
U.S.A.

[Corresponding to U.S. Patent No. 3,781,902]

This is an apparatus for recording and thermally processing data. A laser beam, modulated by a video signal generates a raster so as to expose a latent image of the input information on a storage medium. A rotating drum in conjunction with an incrementally driven lens carriage associated with the laser optical system provides the raster generation. The drum is automatically loaded with the storage medium from a supply means and automatically unloaded to a thermal processor upon completion of recording. The latent image is processed by the controlled application of heat so as to produce an actual display able image corresponding to the data input at the output of the apparatus.

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The present invention is directed to a new parametric amplifier structure which exhibits a large gain-bandwidth product and low noise characteristics without cryogenic cooling. In addition, higher idler frequencies are attained and which are easily adjustable in resonant frequency. The amplifier includes a stacked pair of uncased varactor diode chips within a waveguide channel, which chips are stacked in a predetermined direction.

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The lift-induced wingtip vortex associated with large jet aircraft has become a major problem to the air traffic controller as well as an unseen hazard to smaller aircraft. In this invention, a means for attenuating this potentially dangerous wingtip vortex is disclosed which consists of a drogue device attached downstream of the wingtip which creates a positive pressure gradient just downstream from the wing. The positive pressure forces a break up of the rotational air flow of the vortex.

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