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 Translation for 'retroreflector' from English to Russian
NOUN   a retroreflector | retroreflectors
катафот {м}retroreflector
ретрорефлектор {м}retroreflector
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Translation for 'retroreflector' from English to Russian

retroreflector
катафот {м}

ретрорефлектор {м}
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Usage Examples English
  • 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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