A Simple, Low-Cost, Zero-G Cloud-Physics Camera and Optics System
The cloud physics camera and optical system described here was originally developed for use in 1975 on the joint American-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) to investigate salt particle breakup, particle acceleration, and cloud formation in a zero-gravity environment. Lack of room and priority resulted in its exclusion from the ASTP mission along with many other worthy experiments. However, in view of the current broad interest in cloud-physics experimentation in zero-gravity (with a long-range view toward atmospheric pollution abatement and weather control), it seems that the progress made in developing these relatively simple, low-cost solutions to photographic and data-reading problems inherent in such experimentation should be published to aid others working in similar or related projects. For the four basic problem areas there are relatively simple, low-cost solutions; these as well as secondary problem areas of potentially broad interest and their solutions are described.
- Print ISSN
- 0361-4573
- Published
- 1975-08
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/J13317