Everything about Joseph Nunn totally explained
Joseph Nunn (1905–
1968) was an
American engineer.
In 1956 he worked in collaboration with
Dr. James G. Baker to design and manufacture a series of
satellite tracking
cameras. These were called Baker-Nunn cameras after their designers, and consisted of a very precise tracking system combined with an unusually large, wide-field camera for photographing large areas of the sky. Joseph Nunn was responsible for designing the mechanical elements of these cameras, while Dr. Baker worked on the camera. The optics were fabricated by the Perkin-Elmer Corporation.
This camera provided tracking data on the
Soviet Union's
Sputnik I satellite. An STP network of the 12 cameras were built by August 1958. The cameras remained in operation until the
1980s, when they were decommissioned. At least one of the cameras was later refurbished for use in the Asteroid tracking program.
Joseph Nunn is known to have lived in south
Pasadena, California.
The
Nunn crater on the
Moon was named for him.
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