Facilities
Facilities at the site include missile launch pads, tracking radar, optical missile tracking systems, cinetheodolites as well as use of Overberg Air Force Base, home of the South African Air Force Test Flight and Development Centre. The layout appears to mirror the testing site at Palmachim, suggesting Israeli input in the design process.
Instrumentation includes:
- IRIG timecode telecommand transmission
- Precision instrumentation radars with velocity measurement and ability to track up to three objects simultaneously
- Fixed and mobile doppler radar receivers to track missile velocities with 3 cm/s accuracy
- Mobile cine theodolites (5-300 frame/s) and a tracking pedestal with film (25-1000 frame/s) and video (50Hz) capability
- Fixed and mobile telemetry stations for receiving real-time flight data
- 16mm, 35mm and 70mm high speed cameras for photographic documentation of launches, flights and impacts
- Film and video processors for data reduction
- Multiple redundant receiving PCM on FM channels
- Real time data manipulation and display capabilities
- Quick-look and post test processing
- Atomic clock for accurate timing
- Multiple interfaces including IRIG-B, IRIG-A, a variety of slow codes, pulses as well as PC parallel and serial.
- Sophisticated command and control infrastructure, including a central control centre, a mobile control centre and a central computer.
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