MSN 1110 PHOTOGRAPHIC EVALUATION INTERIM REPORT (PEIR)

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: June 19, 1970
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NUMERICAL SUM:
MSN NO AND DATES: 1110-1 20-31 MAY 70 RECOVERY 31 MAY 70/223OZ
-2 31 MAY 70 - 8 JUN 70 RECOVERY 8 JUN 70/
2230Z
LAUNCH DATE $ TIME: 20 MAY 70/2135Z
VEHICLE NO: 1656
CAM SYS: CR-11
PAN CAMS: AFT LOOKING 322, FILM TYPES 3404/S0-349/3404
FWD LOOKING 323, FILM TYPES 3404/S0-349/3404
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STELLAR LENS: PORT F/2.8, 1.5 SEC, NO FILTER
STB F/2.8, 1.5 SEC, NO FILTER
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FILM TYPE: 3401
TERRAIN LENS: F/6.3, 1/500 SEC, FIXED W-12 FILTER
FILM TYPE: 3400
RECOVERY REV
S: MSN 1110-1, REV 179
-2, REV 309
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2130Z TO 2220Z, 20 MAY 70
2. CAM SETTINGS :
FWD LOOKING:
WRATTEN 23 A (PRIMARY)
WRATTEN 25 (ALT)
SLIT WIDTH POS 1 - 0.141
INS
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2 - 0.167
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3 - 0.203
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4 - 0.108
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FAIL SAFE-0.153
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(MEASURED)
AFT LOOKING: WRATTEN 21 (PRIMARY)
WRATTEN 23 A (ALT)
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2 - 0.132 INS (MEASURED)
3 - 0.160 INS (MEASURED)
4 - 0.080 INS (MEASURED)
FAIL SAFE - 0.118 INS (MEASURED)
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A. ~REPORTED MSN 1110 IMAGE QUALITY LESS THAN THAT OF
PREVIOUS 1100 SERIES MSNS AND PI'SUIT RANGES FROM GOOD TO POOR -
MOSTLY IN FAIR TO POOR CATEGORY.
B. PET CONCURS WITH THIS BASIC ASSESSMENT, FINDING A NUMBER OF
FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO MEDIOCRE PERFORMANCE OF THIS MSN:
(1) SCALE: SMALL SCALE OF IMAGERY, WHEN COMPARED TO EARLY
1100 SERIES MSNS, CONTINUES TO BE A MAJOR DETRIMENT TO PI SUIT.
SMALL SCALE WAS AGAIN REPORTED BY
REASSESS SELECTION CRITERIA WHICH PRESENTLY FAVORS COVERAGE OVER
QUALITY FOR THE 1100 SERIES MSNS.
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AS DEGRADING PI READOUT.
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(2) CAM SYS RES PERFORMANCE: GROUND SYS TEST PERFORMANCE
OF CR-11 MSN 1110, WAS POOREST OF ANY 1100 SERIES SYS FLOWN IN
-=PAST TWO YRS. PEAK RES OF 166 L/MM FOR FWD CAM AND 120 L/MM
FOR AFT CAM ARE EACH APPROX 20 L/MM LOWER THAN PREVIOUS 1100
SERIES MSNS. FROM GROUND TEST DATA, IT HAD BEEN PREDICTED THAT
MIP RATING FOR MSN 1110 WOULD NOT EXCEED 90 IF SELECTED FROM AFT
CAM OR 100 IF SELECTED FROM FWD.
(3) CAM FOCUS: SOME AFT CAM RESULTS, BASED ON CORN READINGS,
WERE AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN COULD BE EXPECTED FROM ITS GROUND TEST
DATA. FWD CAM READINGS DO NOT MEET EXPECTATIONS. LOSSES APPEAR TO
BE CAUSED BY AN OUT OF FOCUS CONDITION. FWD IMAGERY IS MORE SEVERELY
AFFECTED ON THE FILM'S OUTBOARD EDGE INDICATING A FILM PLANE TILT.
ACTUAL FOCUS IS FORWARD OF FILM PLANE FOR SYSTEM, A CONDITION EFFECTED
BY LOWER TEMPS WHICH ARE BEING ACHIEVED BY PRESENT THERMAL DESIGN.
AS TEMP DECREASES IN THE SYS, FILM LIFT INCREASES. INCREASING FILM LIFT
RESULTS IN GREATER FILM LIFT VARIABILITY. PET RECOMMENDS REVIEW OF
SYS THERMAL DESIGN. IF NOT PRACTICAL TO ACHIEVE ABOVE 60 - 65 DEG
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RANGE, CAM SYS FOCUS SETTING SHOULD BE BASED ON EXPECTED RANGE
RATHER THAN AT 70 DEG NOMINAL. THE OUT OF FOCUS CONDITION APPEARS
WORSE ON 1110-1 THAN 1110-2; POSSIBLY DUE TO FILM DRYING WHICH
RESULTS IN LESS FILM LIFT VARIABILITY.
(4) FILTER: THE ALT FILTER IN FWD CAM WAS A W-25. THE
OP UTILIZING THIS FILTER ACHIEVED A CORN GRD IMPROVEMENT OF 1
FT OVER THOSE CORN READINGS OBTAINED WITH PRIME FILTER, W-23.
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE PRIME FILTER USAGE DETRACTED FROM PI
INTERP. PET RECOMMENDS THAT ALL FUTURE FLIGHTS UTILIZE A W-25 AS
PRIMARY FILTER FOR FWD CAMERA.
C. THREE CORN TGTS WERE COVERED ON MSN 1110. EACH COVERAGE
INCLUDED BOTH A 51/51 TGT AND A VERNIER TGT, WHICH IS DISPLAYED
SPECIFICALLY FOR ASSESSING PERFORMANCE OF 1100 SERIES MSNS.
READINGS SHOWN ARE FOR VERNIER TGT AND ARE AN AVERAGE OF 7 READERS
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4. PAN CAM ANOMALIES:
A. ANOMALY: A BAND OF DIAGONAL MARKS (ROPE APPEARANCE), 0.1
IN WIDE AND 0.3 IN FROM BINARY EDGE, RUNS CONTINUOUSLY FROM FR 23
TO FR 38 OF FWD PASS D263, WITHIN ACTIVE FORMAT. BAND RESUMES IN FR
43 AND CONTINUES THROUGH FR 92. IT DOES NOT APPEAR ON LAST FR OF
PASS D263.
&USE: CAUSE IS UNKNOWN; HOWEVER, NO PHYSICAL DAMAGE OR IMAGE
DEG IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS MARKING.
ACTION: NONE.
B. ANOMALY: AN INTERMITTENT, 8 IN LONG, LONGITUDINAL EMULSION
SCRATCH ORIGINATES APPROX 3 INS FROM SUPPLY END OF FR AND EXTENDS THROUGH
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A. 0. AND INTO TAKE-UP OF ADJ FR. SCRATCH IS LOCATED IN FWD FORMAT
ONE IN FROM BINARY FILM EDGE. SEVERITY OF SCRATCH DECREASES AS MSN
PROGRESSES.
CAUSE: THIS ANOMALY WAS PRESENT DURING SYS TESTS, APPEARING
MORE AS PRESSURE MARK THAN SCRATCH. MARK EXHIBITED "SKEWED/BRUSHING"
APPEARANCE ACROSS ITS WIDTH BUT SHOWED NO EVIDENCE OF EMULSION
GOUGING. SOURCE OF MARKING WAS LOCATED ON INPUT SIDE IMMEDIATELY
PRIOR TO ENTERING A. 0. PLATEN. EQUIP IN THIS AREA WAS PARTIALLY
DISASSEMBLED AND INSPECTED BUT DIRECT CAUSE OF MARK WAS NOT
DETERMINED. DURING FLT READINESS TEST, WITH FLT TAKE-UPS INSTALLED,
PRESSURE MARK WAS OBSERVED TO BE LESS SEVERE, AND FURTHER DISASSEMBLY
AND INSPECTION WERE CONSIDERED UNWARRANTED.
ACTION: NONE.
C. ANOMALY: PARTS OF SOME FWD OPS APPEAR UNDEREXPOSED AND OTHERS
APPEAR OVEREXPOSED. (EX: PASS D186, D202, D234.)
CAUSE: THIS CONDITION OCCURRED WHERE OPS RQMNTS FOR SO-349
AND 3404 NECESSITATED A RESTRICTION IN SLIT SELECTION AND SUBSEQUENT
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ORBITAL EXPOSURE SELECTION. SINCE ONE SLIT ON EACH CAM WAS ASSIGNED
SPECIFICALLY FOR SO-349, ONLY THREE SLITS WERE AVAILABLE FOR USE
ON 3404. CONSEQUENTLY, OPTIMUM EXP COULD NOT BE ACHIEVED ON ALL
PASSES.
ACTION: NO FURTHER ACTION REQUIRED.
D. ANOMALY: SEVERAL MINUS DENSITY DEFECTS ARE PRESENT INTER-
MITTENTLY THROUGHOUT SO-349 AFT RECORD AND AT LEAST ONCE IN SO-349
FWD RECORD.
CAUSE: ANALYSIS INDICATES FOREIGN LIQUID SUBSTANCE FORMED
A DROP ON FILM. AS DROP WAS TRANSPORTED THROUGH INPUT METERING
ROLLER ASSEMBLY OR PROCESSOR ROLLER, SUBSTANCE WAS SQUEEGEED. THIS
SQUEEGEED PATTERN WAS REPEATED 4 TO S TIMES AT A PITCH OF SIX AND
THREE EIGHTS INS AND EITHER DESENSITIZED THE EMULSION OR PREVENTED
PENETRATION OF VISCOUS DEVELOPER, THEREBY RESULTING IN MINUS DENSITY
SPOTS. ANALYSIS CONCLUDED THIS ANOMALY IS NOT A FILM DEFECT.
MATERIAL HAD SUFFICIENT TIME TO DRY PRIOR TO BEING WRAPPED ON A
SPOOL AND PATTERN OCCURRED RANDOMLY. TIME OF OCCURRENCE CANNOT BE
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ACTION: INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION.
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E. ANOMALY: THREE FILM NICKS AND A DIAGONAL CREASE IN FRS
25 AND 26 OF AFT PASS D187, WERE CAUSED WHEN FILM TRACKED OVER
FLANGE OF GUIDE ROLLER DURING POST MSN PRESPLICE OP. A MFG SPLICE
IS LOCATED IN FR 26 OF PASS D187.
CAUSE: DURING PRESPLICE AT IT WAS NOTED THAT AFT CAM
"B" ROLL WAS SLIGHTLY OUT OF ROUND. p6 MFG SPLICE IN FR 26 LEFT CAM
ROLL, SLACK SUDDENLY~FORMED AND CAUSED FILM TO TRACK OVER FLANGE OF
GUIDE ROLLER ON PRESPLICE TABLE. SLACK RESULTED FROM OUT OF ROUND
CONDITION OF CAM ROLL AS RECEIVED BY
ACTION: NO ACTION RECOMMENDED.
F. ANOMALY: GROUND HANDLING - SET OF DIAL THERMOMETERS WERE
INSTALLED IN FILM HANDLING CASES FOR THIS MSN. UPON ARRIVAL AT
READINGS RECORDED FOR MAX TEMP REACHED IN EACH SUITCASE WERE:
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TEAM AT PROC SITE. CONCERN WAS ACCENTUATED BY PRESENCE OF FILM SPOTS,
FOR WHICH NO CAUSE IS KNOWN.
CAUSE: IT IS FELT THAT REOCRDED TEMPS, IN PARTICULAR THE 205
DEG G RECORDED ON THE 1110-2 AFT RECORD ARE IN ERROR AND RESULTED FROM
INCORRECT HANDLING IN "FIRST TIME" USE OF THESE DIALS. FILM HANDLING
PROCEDURES USED ON MSN 1110 WERE IDENTICAL TO THOSE OF PREVIOUS CORONA
MSNS AND A/C ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDINGS SHOWED NO INDICATION OF DEVIATION
FROM NOMINAL.
ACTION: CONDUCT FURTHER EVAL OF TEMP RECORDING TECHS. ASSIGNED
1110-1 1110-2
FWD 114 DEG F 117 DEG F
AFT 102 DEG F 205 DEG F
THIS INDICATED HIGH TEMP FOR 1110-2 AFT CAUSED CONCERN AMONG
OPS. NEXT TO LAST FR OF SOME OPS CONTAINS AN EXTRA BINARY TIME WORD.
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CAUSE: THESE CONDITIONS RESULT WHEN THE INHIBIT PULSE IS
NOT LONG ENOUGH TO PREVENT DOUBLE FIRING DURING SLOW OP, IE, CREEP
MODE. THIS ANOMALY CAN OCCUR FREQUENTLY ON SHUT DOWN WITH NO
RESULTING DAMAGE.
ACTION: NO ACTION RECOMMENDED.
H. ANOMALY: RANDOM, INTERMITTENT, PLUS DENSITY SPOTS ARE
PRESENT THROUGHOUT 1110-2 ONLY. THEY ARE PRESENT ON BOTH FWD AND
AFT CAM RECORDS AS WELL AS BOTH 3404 AND SO-349 EMULSIONS. SIZE OF
SPOTS VARIES WITH LARGEST APPROX FIVE TEN-THOUSANDTHS IN. DEGRADATION
ATTRIBUTABLE TO THESE SPOTS EXPECTED TO BE MINIMAL.
ESTABLISHED THAT PLUS DENSITY SPOTS
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ARE SILVER. THEY HAVE A FUZZY, UNSHARP BOUNDARY, AND OCCUR BOTH IN AND
OUT OF FORMAT AREA WITH SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER FREQUENCY IN LAST FEW INS
AT SUPPLY END OF FR.'.. SOURCE OF SENSITIZATION WHICH RESULTED IN THESE
SPOTS COULD NOT BE ESTABLISHED, BUT IT IS SUSPECTED TO HAVE OCCURRED
IN FLT.
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I. ANOMALY: IMAGERY FROM BOTH CAMS DISPLAYS AN OUT OF FOCUS
CONDITION.
CAUSE: INSTRUMENTS WERE FOCUSED FOR AN EXPECTED TEMPOF
APPROX 70 DEG F. ACTUAL MSN TEMPS WERE LOWER, IE, APPROX 60 DEG F.,
RESULTING IN HIGHER THAN EXPECTED DYNAMIC FILM LIFT AND VARIABILITY
DURING EXPOSURE. IN ADDITION, NONUNIFORMITY ACROSS FORMAT IS ATTRIBUTED
TO HIGHER THAN NORMAL FILM TILT, CAUSE OF WHICH IS UNKNOWN. THUS,
ONE EDGE OF FORMAT IS AS SHARP AS EXPECTED FOR THESE UNITS AT THESE
TEMPS,WHILE REST OF FORMAT IS MORE SERIOUSLY DEGRADED.
ACTION: INSTRUMENTS WILL BE SHIMMED FOR A TEMP OF 60 DEG F..,
ANTICIPATED FLT ENVIRONMENT. IN ADDITION, CONDUCT AMBIENT AGT TESTS
ON REMAINING SYS. UTILIZING THESE DATA, ADJUST INSTRUMENTS TO OBTAIN
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(1) ANOMALY: OUT OF FOCUS AREAS PRESENT ON FRS 3 AND 4
OF FWD CAM OF SOME PASSES AND ON FRS 4 AND S OF AFT CAM.
CAUSE: AFT CAM HAS SIT MARKS ON FRS 4 AND S SIMILAR
TO THOSE WHICH OCCURRED DURING MSN 1109/CR-9 FWD.
ACTION: NO ACTION RECOMMENDED.
(2) ANOMALY: AN EQUIPMENT IMAGE ASSOCIATED FOG PATTERN IS
PRESENT ON FOURTH FR FROM END OF SOME FWD PASSES.
CAUSE: FOG ON FOURTH FR WAS CAUSED BY LIGHT LEAK AT A CORNER
OF FWD LIGHT SHIELD ASSEMBLY. DENSITY IS CONSIDERED MINOR AND NO
IMAGE DEGRADATION WAS NOTED.
ACTION: NO ACTION RECOMMENDED.
(3) ANOMALY: A MINOR CHARACTERISTIC FOG PATTERN DESCRIBED
AS "SPLASHING" IS PRESENT ON FIRST FR OF MOST OPS.
CAUSE: CHARACTERISTIC OF CR SYSTEM.
ACTION: NONE.
5. DISICCAM PERFORMANCE: LAST ACQUISITION OBTAINED FROM INDEX CAM
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IS FR 55 OF PASS 301. LAST STELLAR ACQUISITION IS PORT 58 OF PASS
304. POINT-TYPE STAR IMAGES WERE RECORDED BY BOTH STELLAR CAMS.
APPROX 12-20 STAR IMAGES WERE RECORDED ON PORT AND STB FORMATS. INDEX
IMAGE QUALITY, WHERE NOT DEGRADED BY STATIC FOGGING, IS GOOD.
6. DISIC ANOMALIES:
A. ANOMALY: MULTIPLE, CORONA, DENDRITIC, AND GRID PLATE STATIC
DISCHARGE IN PORT AND STB FORMATS IS PRESENT INTERMITTENTLY THROUGH
MSN. STATIC DISCHARGES ARE MORE PROMINENT ON 1110-2 AND HEAVIER ON
STB THAN ON PORT.
CAUSE: AN EMULSION BUILDUP ON THE RESEAU GRID LINES INCREASES
TO APOINT AT WHICH STATIC FROM GRID LINES DISCHARGES IN A TYPICAL
GRID-LIKE FASHION. CORONA DISCHARGES ARE PRESSURE SENSITIVE AND MORE
VISIBLE DURING INDEPENDENT MODE WITH PMU OFF.
ACTION: CONDUCT AN EVAL OF PRESENT PMU CONFIG TO DETERMINE
POSSIBILITY OF PROVIDINGPMU PRESSURE DURING DISIC INDEPENDENT OPS.
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 B. ANOMALY: FIVE FRS DID NOT HAVE BINARY TIME WORD IMAGED,
(EX: PASS 168, FR 28).
CAUSE: ADJ TIME WORDS WERE SHARP, THEREFORE PROBLEM IS
MORE LIKELY ELECTRICAL THAN MECHANICAL AND ABSENCE OF TIME WORD
MAY HAVE BEEN DUE TO A MISSED DATA REQUEST PULSE.
ACTION: NO ACTION RECOMMENDED.
C. ANOMALY: MSN 1110 INDEX FILM IS DEGRADED BY BAND OF LINES
AND ASSOCIATED STATIC WHICH ARE MOST OBVIOUS IN CTR OF FORMAT. BAND
APPEARS AS MINOR DEGRADATION AT BEGINNING OF MSN AND PROGRESSIVELY
WORSENS TOWARD END OF MSN WHERE FRS IN INDEPENDENT MODE ARE 80 PCT
DEGRADED. THERE IS EVIDENCE ON PAD-LOADED PORTION OF A RUBBING
INTERFERENCE OVER APPROX THREE-QUARTERS OF FORMAT. MAJOR LINES APPEAR
AT 2.5MM SPACING AND ARE COINCIDENT WITH RESEAU LINES. HOWEVER, MANY
MINOR LINES AN BANDS WITHIN MAJOR BAND ARE NOT COINCIDENT WITH RESEAU
LINES. SOME EVIDENCE OF EMULSION RUB APPEARS COINCIDENT WITH RESEAU
LINES IN INNER FR AREAS. FIVE BLANK FRS IN PASS 9 SHOW BAND OF LINES
AS VERY CONTINUOUS BAND WITH LITTLE, IF ANY, EVIDENCE OF METERING.
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PRESSURE QiANGES DUE TO PMU TURN-ONE AND -OFF ARE STRIKINGLY
EVIDENT IN THAT CORONA MARKING IN INDEPENDENT MODE IS MUCH
HEAVIER THAN IN DEPENDENT MODE.
CAUSE: FOLLOWING CONDITIONS COULD HAVE CAUSED ANOMALY:
(1) MIS-THREADING OF FILM PATH IN SUPPLY CASSETTE, BODY ASSEMBLY OR
EXIT HOUSING, (2) OUT OF TIMING OF PLATEN WITH RESPECT TO FILM
METERING CYCLE, (3) FAULTY SKEW ROLLER IN EXIT BOX. THE FOLLOWING
OBSERVATIONS ARE MADE FROM AVAILABLE DATA: (1) CUT AND SPLICE DEVICE
AND TAKE-UP CASSETTES CAN BE ELIMINATED AS CAUSES SINCE, AT TIME OF
CUT AND SPLICE, MARKING CONTINUED AND WAS~UNCHANGED THROUGH SPLICE.
(2) CENTRAL MARKING AREA SHIFTS SLIGHTLY AND HEAVY DENSTTY AREAS
FAVOR SIDE OPPOSITE SLP, A CONDITION WHICH MIGHT BE EXPECTED SINCE
SKEW ROLLER IS PRESET IN SUCH A WAY AS TO LOAD SIDE OPPOSITE SLP.
(3) FORMAT CORNERS ARE SHARP AND FLAT, AND SLP REGISTERS CORRECTLY.
PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FROM CLEAT INDICATES FILM FLATNESS AND CALIBRATION
'WERE MAINTAINED IN MSN. THEREFORE, IT IS UNLIKELY THAT A PLATEN PAD
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PROBLEM WAS CAUSE, ALTHOUGH A ROUGH PAD EDGE CANNOT BE
ELIMINATED AS A POSSIBILITY. (4) NO EVIDENCE OF SIMILAR-TYPE
PROBLEM ON STELLAR MATERIAL. THIS REDUCES, BUT DOES NOT ELIMINATE
POSSIBILITY OF A SUPPLY CASSETTE PROBLEM.
ACTION: (1) ENDEAVOR TO DUPLICATE MARKINGS AS THEY
APPEARED ON PREFLIGHT PORTION OF FILM IN AN EXISTING DISIC SYS.
(2) IF REQUIRED, CHANGE DISIC ASSEMBLY AND TEST PROCEDURE.
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7. REVIEW OF SO-349 (3414) AND 3404 ON'S INDICATES NO APPARENT
DIFFERENCE IN IMAGE QUALITY. HOWEVER, ABILITY TO DECREASE SLIT WIDTHS
AND THEREBY DECREASE SMEAR COMPONENTS, FAVOR FUTURE USAGE OF 3414. PET
RECOMMENDS USE OF 3414 IN FUTURE FLTS. IT IS ALSO RECOMMENDED THAT
PORTION OF MSN 1111-1 BE PROCESSED NORMALLY (NOT FORCED DEVELOPMENT) AND
COMPARED WITH REMAINDER OF 1111-1 TO DETERMINE BEST PROCESSING METHOD FOR
MSN 1111-2 AND SUBSEQUENT MSNS.
8. MSN 1111: MSN 1111 PLANNING WAS DISCUSSED AND DECISION CONCERNING
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 CONVENING OF PET MEET ATI WAS POSTPONED UNTIL LATE JULY.
GROUND TEST PERFORMANCE OF SYS CR-12, WHICH WILL BE FLOWN ON
MSN 1111, INDICATES IT IS COMPARABLE TO THAT OF CR-11, WHICH WAS
FLOWN ON MSN 1110. KNOWN AUG CLIMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND ASSUMED
HIGH MSN ALT WILL.LIKELY RESULT IN SIMILAR PHOTO INTERP COMMENTS
FOR MSN 1110 AND 1111. AN MIP OF 90-100 IS ANTICIPATED. FOLLOWING
DATA SUM FOR MSNS 1101 - 1111 IS PROVIDED FOR INFO PURPOSES:
MSN NO/ LAUNCH INST/ LENS FIL PEAK FIG OF ALT MIP MIP
SYS NO DATE LOOK TYPE RES MERIT NM PRED -1/-2
1101/ 9-15-67 302A 1 W-21 125 60 85 70 N/R*
CR-1
1102/
CR-2 12-9-67 304A 1 W-21 122 115 87 90 N/R
1103/
CR-3 5-1-68 306A 1 W-21 136 125 88 85 N/R
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CR-4 8-7-68 308A 2 W-21 141 145 87 110 N/R
309F 3 W-25 172 165 87 110 115-1
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CR-5 11-3-68 310A 1 W-21 158 130 85 95 95-1
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323F 3 W-23 166 155 92 100 90-1
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CR-12 324A 2 W-21 118 115 95(3) 90
32SF 3 W-25 175 160 95(3) 100
N/R - NO RATING (RATINGS BY ARE FOR BEST CAM ONLY).
(1) - FIG OF MERIT IS A COMBINED MEASURE OF DEPTH OF FOCUS AND RES
USED IN MAKING ORBITAL PREDICTIONS.
(2) - THE MIP PRED COMBINES FIG OF MERIT AND SCALE IN PROJECTING
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