ROCKET-BORNE INSTRUMENTATION TO MEASURE THE RATE OF IONIZATION AND RELATED PHENOMENA DURING AN AURORA.

The scientific objectives of the experiments and the individual instruments flown on the Astrobee 200 sounding rocket AC 15.610 are discussed in detail. The rocket was instrumented for auroral studies and was launched from Fort Churchill, Manitoba, Canada on 8 December 1963. The instrumentation incl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Reidy,W. P., Davidson,G., Giacconi,R., Shepherd,O., Smith,R.
Other Authors: AMERICAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING INC CAMBRIDGE MASS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1964
Subjects:
(*AURORAE
IONIZATION)
(*IONOSPHERE
SOUNDING ROCKETS)
RADIATION MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
UPPER ATMOSPHERE
MONITORS
IONIZATION CHAMBERS
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
GEIGER COUNTERS
ELECTRON TUBES
PHOTOMETERS
Canada
Fort Churchill
Geiger
Churchill
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0610505
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0610505
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Summary:The scientific objectives of the experiments and the individual instruments flown on the Astrobee 200 sounding rocket AC 15.610 are discussed in detail. The rocket was instrumented for auroral studies and was launched from Fort Churchill, Manitoba, Canada on 8 December 1963. The instrumentation included a new detector to measure the rate of ion production during periods of abnormally large ionization and other detectors to measure such related phenomenon as particle fluxes and auroral line intensities. (Author)

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