Location
Cocoa Beach, FL
Start Date
7-3-1966 8:00 AM
Description
We have had a vast increase in the amount and rate of data telemetered back to the Eastern Test Range from both missiles and manned and unmanned space vehicles over the past few years.
In 1961, as a major part of the Eastern Test Range Telemetry Modernization Program, development of a new Central Telemetry Station at Kennedy Space Center was initiated. It was designated Telemetry Station IV (TEL-IV), The objectives of the new Central Telemetry Station (TEL-IV) have been established as:
1. Provide simultaneous multiple mission capability for both pre-launch and launch support. 2. Serve as a central telemetry station for receiving , processing, and distributing the telemetered data from remote mobile and landbased stations. 3. Provide minimum turn around time between mission setups and permit rapid equipment changes in the event of failures. 4. Provide real time and non - real time capability to meet all program requirements.
In order to achieve these objectives, the integrated systems design departed from the traditional ground station concept of hard wire or manual patching. Instead, the station was designed .and based on a central control technique. The system setup and equipment assignment for a given mission's support is accomplished automatically by a launch coordinator through a special purpose , wired-program digital data processor and a cross-bar switching network.
Air Force Eastern Test Range Central Telemetry Station (TEL-IV)
Cocoa Beach, FL
We have had a vast increase in the amount and rate of data telemetered back to the Eastern Test Range from both missiles and manned and unmanned space vehicles over the past few years.
In 1961, as a major part of the Eastern Test Range Telemetry Modernization Program, development of a new Central Telemetry Station at Kennedy Space Center was initiated. It was designated Telemetry Station IV (TEL-IV), The objectives of the new Central Telemetry Station (TEL-IV) have been established as:
1. Provide simultaneous multiple mission capability for both pre-launch and launch support. 2. Serve as a central telemetry station for receiving , processing, and distributing the telemetered data from remote mobile and landbased stations. 3. Provide minimum turn around time between mission setups and permit rapid equipment changes in the event of failures. 4. Provide real time and non - real time capability to meet all program requirements.
In order to achieve these objectives, the integrated systems design departed from the traditional ground station concept of hard wire or manual patching. Instead, the station was designed .and based on a central control technique. The system setup and equipment assignment for a given mission's support is accomplished automatically by a launch coordinator through a special purpose , wired-program digital data processor and a cross-bar switching network.
