{"id":1455,"date":"2011-11-04T18:03:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?page_id=1455"},"modified":"2012-03-29T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T22:36:25","slug":"baker-nunn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?page_id=1455","title":{"rendered":"Baker Nunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baker Nunn name originated from different areas of expertise:<br \/>\nThe Optical design by <a href=\"http:\/\/aas.org\/baas\/obits\/obit?Full_Name=James_Gilbert_Baker&amp;Date=2005-06-29\">Dr. James Baker<\/a>, Consultant to Perkin Elmer, Connecticut. <a href=\"http:\/\/aas.org\/baas\/obits\/obit?Full_Name=James_Gilbert_Baker&amp;Date=2005-06-29\">Dr. Baker&#8217;s obituary on the American Astronomical Society webpage<\/a> includes his involvement in the optical design for the Baker Nunn Satellite Tracking Cameras.<br \/>\nThe Mechanical design by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Nunn\">Joseph Nunn<\/a> of South Pasadena.<br \/>\nPerkin Elmer, Norwalk, Connecticut,\u00a0 did the optics grinding, polishing, and figure testing.<br \/>\nBoller and Chivens manufactured, assembled, and did acceptances testing.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Baker Nunn Satellite Tracking Cameras\" href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=561\">Smithsonian Baker Nunn Satellite Tracking Camera<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Baker Nunn for U.S. Airforce\" href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=1451\">Air Force Baker Nunn Satellite Tracking Cameras<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"U.S. Armed Forces Baker Nunn Missile Reentry Tracking Camera\" href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=2326\">U.S. Armed Forces Missile Reentry Tracking Camera<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many photos on this site can be enlarged.<br \/>\nFor more information about viewing photos, visit the <a title=\"Viewing Photographs\" href=\"..\/?page_id=2193\">Enlargement of Photographs Page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baker Nunn name originated from different areas of expertise: The Optical design by Dr. James Baker, Consultant to Perkin Elmer, Connecticut. Dr. Baker&#8217;s obituary on the American Astronomical Society webpage includes his involvement in the optical design for the Baker Nunn Satellite Tracking Cameras. The Mechanical design by Joseph Nunn of South Pasadena. Perkin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1455","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1455\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}