SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE PROBLEM OF DETERMINING THE PROBLEM OF A STABILIZED PLATFORM IN A MOVING ROCKET SLED

摘要

The problem is to locate accurately, and with respect to the ground, a stabilized platform inside a rocket sled while it is traveling down the track. Of various methods, only optical methods appear to be practical for making these measurements.nTwo general classes of optical methods could be used: optical levers, and measurements of the plane of polarization. The optical lever method is shown to be impossible unless the deflection caused by the shock wave is known. The polarization method can probably be made to work on the track.