Edwin Felch, project director in charge of developing the Titan guidance system, holds the "voice" of the ICBM.
OF A GUIDED MISSILE This is a missile-borne transmitter. It is the "voice" of a missile ie flight - . . part of a new radio-inertial guidance system developed by Bell Telephone Labo ratories for the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Force.
station monitors the progress of the flight continu ously and obtains immediate evaluation of mission success. And since the principal control equipment is kept on the ground, expendable hardware in the missile itself is minimized.
This versatile system helped deliver the nose cone of a Tfaor-AbSe test missile precisely to its South Atlantic t a r g e t area—5000 miles from Cape Canav eral, Florida. So accurately was t h e nose cone placed that a waiting group off ships and planes retrieved it in a matter of hours. I t was the first nose cone ever to be recovered after so long a Eight.
This radio-inertial guidance system is a product of the Bell Laboratories-Western Electric develop ment-production team. I t is in production a t Western Electric for the first operational squadrons of the T i t a n intercontinental ballistic missile.
T h e command guidance system which made such accuracy possible combines precision tracking radar with a special Remington Rand Univac computer. Fed a steady stream of signals from the missilebome transmitter, the ground-based equipment com pares the missile's flight path with the preselected path. Corrective steering orders are computed and transmitted automatically to the missile. The ground
Bell Labs scientists and engineers developed the world's most versatile telephone network and much of our nation's radar. They have constantly pio neered in missile systems. From their storehouse of knowledge and experience comes this new achieve ment in missile guidance.
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