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Image:Ariel.jpg 200px ARIEL I satellite Category:Spacecraft

... Cygnus X-1, later supported by OAO 3 , sounding rocket, and ground-based observations. Four Ariel 5 pointing experiments focused on specific x-ray sources, and two scanning experiments swept the ... a 90° field of view, providing together a sweep of the entire sky. After evaluation, Ariel 5 results would be avail-able to the world scientific community. Though all experiments obtained ... U.K.-U.S. cooperative satellite series had begun with Ariel 1 in 1962 and continued through Ariel 4, launched 11 Dec. 1971. Ariel 5 was launched under a 2 Nov. 1970 SRC ...

... was designed to supplement and extend atmospheric and ionospheric investigations conducted by Ariel I (launched April 26, 1962) and Ariel II (launched March 27, 1964). Primary NASA mission objectives were to place ... overall management of Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC . Major portion of the technical effort on Ariel III , including design and fabrication of spacecraft and five experiments, was accomplished in U.K ...

... objective was to investigate interactions between electromagnetic waves, plasmas, and energetic particles in upper ionosphere. Ariel 4 weighed 99.6 kg (220 lbs) and carried five experiments-four provided by U ... , and tracking and data acquisition. A riel 2 had been launched March 27, 1964, and Ariel 3, May 5, 1967. ''(NASA Proj Off; NASA Release 71-277)'' President Nixon accepted resignation ...

... for the Fine Guidance Sensor assembly of the Atmospheric Remote Sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-Survey (ARIEL) mission -- one of three proposed missions currently under consideration by ESA (European Space Agency). The ... only if ARIEL is selected by ESA. The conditionally-selected PMO is: Contribution to ARIEL Spectroscopy of Exoplanets (CASE) CASE would provide packaged detectors to ARIEL’s Fine Guidance Sensor assembly. ARIEL would measure ...

... had been received during past week by tracking stations. ARIEL had stopped transmitting after U.S. high-altitude nuclear test because of radiation damage to the satellite's solar cells. Although resumed transmission was not continuous, it did demonstrate ARIEL ’s regained capability to return scientific data from space. Transmission apparently occurred whenever the satellite ...

... that could be programmed by ground command. U.K.'s Ariel I (launched April 26, 1962), Ariel II (launched March 27, 1964), and Ariel III (launched May 5, 1967), had been launched by ...

... situations. (Marshall Star, Mar 15/78, 4) NASA announced it had judged the UK 5 ( Ariel 5 ) mission successful in prelaunch objectives. This Explorer-class x-ray mission launched in 1974 had contributed significantly to x-ray astronomy and astrophysics. Ariel 5 , a cooperative program between the U.S. and the U.K. Science Research Council ... -ray sources, although most of its studies were of steady x-ray sources. The second Ariel 5 catalog had listed locations of 107 high-latitude x-ray sources, many of them ...

... ., 3/25/63, 26)'' At Goddard Scientific Satellite Symposium, results from ARIEL I scientific satellite were presented. Data from ARIEL confirmed ionospheric temperature relationship with latitude as detected by ALOUETTE I . Solar ...

... a sister craft "orbited" inside the Ses: the UK-D scientific spacecraft-backup model for ARIEL II (UK-II) launched successfully into earth orbit by U.K. March 27, 1964-was ... Ses; flight plan for UK-D followed general flight plan of initial flight days of ARIEL II . Preliminary data indicated operation of the Ses was good throughout the test period. The ...

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