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News Release from: Cedip Infrared Systems
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Team on 18 April 2005
Infra-red camera systems track Ariane
launches
Cedip Infrared Systems has supplied the European Space Agency with several advanced infra-red camera systems enabling it to monitor and track the recent launchings of Ariane 5.
Cedip Infrared Systems has supplied the European Space Agency with several advanced infra-red camera systems enabling it to monitor and track the recent launchings of Ariane 5 Operating from its site at Kourou, French Guyana the European Space Agency used a Jade LR infra-red camera system equipped with long-range optics, operating in the 3-5um waveband, to monitor flight V165
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 24 Jan 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Installed on a turret a few kilometres away from the launch pad, the infra-red camera allowed precise tracking of the launcher during the lift-off phase and on until the booster rocket separation.
Drawing on its unique imagery mode, combining several temperature ranges, the camera was able to additionally observe thermal phenomena on the launcher structure at the different stages of the rocket engine combustion.
Equipped with a laptop computer the Jade LR was able to record the entire launch phase of the flight in real time at 150Hz over a 16bit range.
To monitor the refuelling phase of flight V164 the European Space Agency deployed two Cedip infra-red cameras focused on the cryogenic arms, three hundred metres away from the launch site.
The infra-red cameras, Jade LR and Jade LW, operating in the 3-5 and 8-12um wavebands, respectively, accomplished their mission in extreme thermal and vibratory conditions in spite of the close proximity of the launcher.
In this instance the cameras were run automatically without the need for an operator controlled using a specific timer feature in the Cedip Altair PC software. Request free introductory details about products from Cedip Infrared Systems ...
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