Oct 24 1977
From The Space Library
FBIS said the USSR in 1978 would install a second generation of laser long-distance satellite rangefinders usable in daylight, in- creasing the range to 40,000km with an accuracy of t 10cm. USSR engineers were working in Czechoslovakia on the new rangefinder. The report said Intercosmos engineers from Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the USSR had built a rangefinder measuring distances up to 3000km accurate up to ± 5m; however, it could operate only at night: Ground stations in Poland, Egypt, Bolivia, India, and Cuba had used the device: (FBIS, Intl Serv in Russian, Oct 24/77)
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