Aug 31 1967
From The Space Library
Two NASA Nike-Tomahawk sounding rockets, launched from Andoeya, Norway, carried GSFC payloads containing chemicals to produce barium clouds. Peak altitude attained by rockets would be determined by triangulation and by magnetometer measurements; no radar track was made. Missions of the cooperative Norway-US. project were (1) to compare electric field measurements made by two techniques, double probe and barium release; and (2) to analyze electric fields from observed motions of neutral and ionized barium clouds during an aurora condition. In this first of three pairs of launchings, good data were obtained and excellent results were expected. (NASA Rpt SRL; NASA Release 67-234)
U.S.S.R. launched Cosmos CLXXIV into orbit with 39,750-km (24,699-mi) apogee, 500-km (311-mi) perigee, 715-min period, and 64.5° inclination. (GSFC SSR, 8/31/67)
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