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Re: Dip-meter again
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2012 Apr 12, 10:13 -0300
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2012 Apr 12, 10:13 -0300
"Soviet Space Programs: 1980-1985" by Nicholas L. Johnson. Also tables of Soviet satellite launches. BTW: Before UNB got into GPS research, we were one of the leaders in using the Transit system for geodetic purposes. We even interfaced a Marconi Transit receiver to an Apple II computer! See: http://gge.unb.ca/Resources/quek&langley.pdf and apologies for helping to continue this somewhat off-topic dialogue. -- Richard On 11-Apr-12, at 6:19 PM, Alexandre E Eremenko wrote: > > Richard, > Do you have any source about this? > >> The first prototype Parus (the Soviet military system patterned after >> Transit) satellite was launched in 1974. Deployment of a separate >> civilian system, called Tsikada, began in 1978. > > Alex. > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Richard B. Langley E-mail: lang@unb.ca | | Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ | | Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 | | University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 | | Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 | | Fredericton? Where's that? See: http:// www.fredericton.ca/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
