Joseph Nunn

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.

The optics were fabricated by the Perkin-Elmer Corporation, and the camera was assembled by Boller and Chivens.

[1] This camera provided tracking data on the Soviet Union's Sputnik I satellite.

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