Prior to the design and construction of the Galileo probe to Jupiter in the late 1970s to early 1980s, NASA used Vidicon cameras on nearly all the unmanned deep space probes equipped with the remote sensing ability.
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The advantage of the FSS is that colour analysis is done after scanning, so there can be no registration errors as can be produced by vidicon tubes where scanning is done after colour separation it also allows simpler dichroics to be used.
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The pictures from early Plumbicon cameras were susceptible to comet tails and blooming and, although these effects had not been a major concern in the previous generation of cameras, which employed vidicon or image orthicon tubes, they were an annoying feature of Plumbicon tubes.
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The aims of the designers of the camera were, firstly, to produce a camera that was more tolerant to mis-registration and, secondly, to achieve a lighter camera by using smaller vidicon tubes to replace some of the large heavy IO tubes.
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This experimental camera had been inspired by RCA's new four tube camera, the TK42, and used the same tube arrangement, i . e . a 4?inch image Orthicon tube in the luminance channel and three 1 Vidicon tubes in the colour channels.
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The images were captured by the Picturephone's compact Vidicon camera and then transferred to a storage tube or magnetic drum for transmission over regular phone lines at two-second intervals to the receiving unit, which displayed them on a small cathode-ray television tube.
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Following their visit, EMI quickly made an experimental 4-tube camera by cobbling together parts from an EMI Type 203 image orthicon studio camera with parts from an EMI Type 204 three-vidicon industrial colour camera This camera was demonstrated to the BBC and received a lukewarm reception there.
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The scan platform comprises : the Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer ( IRIS ) ( largest camera at top right ); the Ultraviolet Spectrometer ( UVS ) just above the UVS; the two Imaging Science Subsystem ( ISS ) vidicon cameras to the left of the UVS; and the Photopolarimeter System ( PPS ) under the ISS.
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The television camera on Surveyor 3 consisted of a vidicon tube, two 25 and 100 millimeter focal length lenses, iris mounted along an axis inclined about 16 degrees to the central axis of the spacecraft . The TV camera was mounted under a mirror that could be moved in azimuth ( horizontally ) and elevation ( vertically ).
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The experimental apparatus included : ( 1 ) a vidicon television camera, which employed a scan mechanism that yielded one complete frame in 10 s; ( 2 ) a gamma-ray spectrometer mounted on a 1.8 m boom; ( 3 ) a radar altimeter; and ( 4 ) a seismometer to be rough-landed on the lunar surface.
