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

• 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

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)