Timeline for Dish For Tracking and Communicating with ISS
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| Nov 3, 2017 at 11:28 | comment | added | Mohammad Fajar | I mean, it is difficult to make a dish keep track with ISS, because ISS orbitting the earth 15 a day, so they must build a dish with specialized motor to track it. But why in ISS they can build that? I mean ISS must communicate with a network of Geostationary satellite, so its must be equipped with specialized dish with a motor so it can track where TDRS satellite located. | |
| Nov 1, 2017 at 19:44 | comment | added | Organic Marble | TDRSS is not used for guidance. TDRS-1 was launched on a IUS which used inertial guidance. arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.1978-1292 globalsecurity.org/space/systems/ius.htm | |
| Nov 1, 2017 at 19:24 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | I don't know exactly how TDRS-1 was guided into position, but almost certainly it was through some combination of communication from ground stations, ships at sea, and onboard automation. | |
| Nov 1, 2017 at 19:01 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | Why would you need a satellite? We have had radios for a long time, long before there were satellites. | |
| Nov 1, 2017 at 18:22 | comment | added | Mohammad Fajar | but, how about this question: How NASA directed a rocket during launcing the first geostationer satellite, there is no other satellite for it to communicate? | |
| Nov 1, 2017 at 17:52 | history | answered | Russell Borogove | CC BY-SA 3.0 |