These experiments would form the base of the future vidicon. These experiments are the base of the future vidicon. The Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) was designed at RCA in Princeton, New Jersey. The Uvicon was an ultra-violet light detector based on the Westinghouse Vidicon. He developed the first SSTV system using an electrostatic monitor and a vidicon tube. This measurement actually originates back in the 1950s and the time of Vidicon tubes. RCA also produced a four vidicon film camera, the TK-27. The Uvicon, a UV-variant Vidicon was also used by NASA for UV duties. Later vidicon and plumbicon video camera tubes produced much cleaner, more accurate pictures. On 5 August 1972 the return beam vidicon failed after taking only 1690 images. It had six television vidicon cameras&colon; two full-scan and four partial-scan. The Apollo8 crew used a camera that broadcast in black-and-white only, using a Vidicon tube. This camera contained 3 Vidicon tubes and a colour-splitting system using plate glass dichroic mirrors.