Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Graflex Inc.
- Summary
- This is a lens from an index camera used from 1962-1972 onboard the U.S. Corona photoreconnaissance satellites. Index cameras took a small scale photograph of the area being covered by the main panoramic cameras and, in conjuction with imagery from the horizon cameras and stellar camera, enabled photo interpreters to more easily determine the exact terrain being photographed by the main cameras. This unflown lens was manufactured by Graflex, Inc. and donated by Hughes Danbury Optical Systems to NASM in 1996.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Hughes Danbury Optical Systems
- Inventory Number
- A19960624001
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- SPACECRAFT-Uncrewed-Instruments & Payloads
- Materials
- Lens housing--magnesium alloy
- Lens--optical glass
- plastic-coated aluminum wire
- Dimensions
- 3-D (lens, see note): 24 × 13 × 10.8cm, 1kg (9 7/16 × 5 1/8 × 4 1/4 in., 2.3lb.)
- 3-D (lens cap, see note): 8.9 × 8.9 × 0.8cm (3 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 5/16 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Hangar
- James S. McDonnell Space Hangar
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19960624001
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9c99eb155-ba72-4aa1-b708-5d780a4f1524
