NOUN | a retroreflector | retroreflectors | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- LRR (Laser retroreflector) accurately locates the satellite in orbit using a laser ranging system.
- Sheeting has replaced button copy as the predominant type of retroreflector used in roadway signs.
- The satellite was also equipped with a laser retroreflector to enable tracking by ground-based Satellite laser ranging stations.
- The presence of retroreflectors (mirrors used as targets for Earth-based tracking lasers) from the Laser Ranging Retroreflector Experiment (LRRR) is evidence that there were landings.
- For positioning purposes, CryoSat included a DORIS receiver, a laser retroreflector and three star trackers.
- A similar device, the Laser Retroreflector Array (LaRA), has been incorporated in the Mars "Perseverance" rover.
- A delay stage uses a moving retroreflector to redirect the beam along a well-defined output path but following a delay.
- Lunar laser ranging experiments had failed to detect a return signal from its retroreflector since the 1970s.
- In surveying, retroreflector prisms are commonly used as targets for long-range electronic distance measurement using a total station.
- The radiometer, Global Positioning System receiver and laser retroreflector array were built in the United States.
- ERS-1 launched 17 July 1991 from Guiana Space Centre aboard an Ariane 4 rocket. The retroreflector was used for calibrating the Radar Altimeter to within 10 cm.
- Its scientific payload included a magnetometer supplied by the Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science to measure the local magnetic field, and a laser retroreflector array supplied by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to enable precise measurements of the Earth–Moon distance.
- MoonLIGHT, also called Lunar Laser Ranging Retroreflector Array for the 21st Century (LLRRA-21), is a laser retroreflector to be deployed near the lunar south pole region.
- A simple retroreflector can be made by placing three ordinary mirrors mutually perpendicular to one another (a corner reflector). The image produced is the inverse of one produced by a single mirror.
- The light path is created by reflecting light emitted from the transmitter off a retroreflector that is placed opposite the detector.
- , including science instruments and support systems such as the Auxiliary Payload Sensor Suite, cameras, the instrument deployment system, and a laser retroreflector.
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