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In article <8685@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> annette@boole.seas.ucla.edu (Annette K. Nasif) writes:
>... I would like
>to have a videocamera, but the people working on telemetry say that it would
>be too difficult to transmit back that much information.  I therefore need
>to find some sort of camera, the lighter and smaller the better, that can
>take a series of snap shots (at least 8 bit resolution) which can then
>be transmitted and received on the ground...

Ask around the local ham-radio community for people doing slow-scan TV work
(the abbreviation is SSTV).

Bear in mind that there's no magic way of cutting down the amount of data
in an image.  Even at not-particularly-high resolution, say 300x300, you
are still talking about transmitting hundreds of thousands of bits per image.
Even if you spend several seconds transmitting each image, that's still a
fairly high data rate as radio transmission goes.  Just how much data *can*
your telemetry people handle?  If they can't give you at least 100Kb/s or
so, I think you're out of luck.

You might also want to check the Frequently-Asked-Questions list in
rec.models.rockets; people have done this kind of thing before.
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