KFA 1000

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The KFA 1000 is a very long-focal-length satellite camera (focal length ~ 1 meter) adapted in the Soviet Union around 1955 . Originally it was used in military photogrammetry and for special tasks (high image flights?) And at the beginning of the space age it was partly used as an astronomical camera ( astrograph ).

In the former Eastern Bloc it served u. a. the satellite triangulation , but there were also some cooperation with Western institutions. Its counterpart in the USA is the PC-1000 with a focal length of 1 m.

Other cameras had shorter focal lengths, e.g. B. the AFU 75 and the ballistic cameras used to measure rocket launches .

literature

  • Kurt Arnold , Methods of Satellite Geodesy . Akademie-Verlag, East Berlin 1970
  • I. Sklovskij & P.Sceglov, Optical observation of artificial earth satellites (from Russian). Report in the anthology "Artificial Earth satellites" of the Physikal.Gesellschaft der DDR, p. 349–357, Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1959
  • OW Williams, Lasers and satellites: A geodetic application . Bull.Géodésique, Paris 1966.