Lockheed tape recorders in space exploration

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Dec 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987lockh........2a&link_type=abstract

Lockheed Horizons (ISSN 0459-6773), Dec. 1987, p. 2-11.

Physics

Data Recorders, Reliability Engineering, Space Exploration, Tape Recorders, Aerospace Environments, Functional Design Specifications, Sterilization, Viking Mars Program, Voyager Project

Scientific paper

Tape recorders for capturing and storing the excess data collected by spacecraft instruments are discussed. Gaps as small as 10 millionths of an inch, with the recorders operating within a range of one to 100 inches/second with four to eight tracks on quarter-inch tape and nine to 16 tracks on half-inch tape, are described. Advances such as negator springs helping to provide constant torque to ensure smooth tape motion, ball bearings keeping rotating elements in precise alignment with minimum friction, introduction of high-purity vacuum melt steel, and bearing spacers matched to within 50 millionths of an inch, are discussed. The tape recorders for the Long Duration Exposure Facility are analyzed.

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