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... DISCOVERER: THE STORY OF A SATELLITE''' by Chester, M. and S. B. Kramer ''New York, 1960: ... written for the younger reader, the book provides a good text-pictorial account of the Discoverer program, the only one available in the book literature. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated ...

Image:Discoverer13.jpg 200px Discoverer XIII satellite being presented to President Eisenhower Category:Spacecraft

Image:Discoverer14.jpg 200px Discoverer XIV satellite Category:Spacecraft

Image:Explorer18.jpg 200px Explorer 18 satellite Category:Spacecraft

300-pound capsule of DISCOVERER XVIII caught at 14,000 feet by USAF 0-119 crew, after making 48 polar orbits. ... blood and bone marrow to study effect of radiation in space. This was the second DISCOVERER capsule catch by 0-119 crew headed by Capt. Gene Jones, while precision of the ...

... specimens including human tissue recovered from the capsule of DISCOVERER XVIII two days ago, showed far less radiation effects than specimens recovered from DISCOVERER XVII in November. Initial Sight test of new guidance ...

... characteristics, transition capability, and aircraft stability. Analysis of six photographic emulsion blocks carried aloft by DISCOVERER XVIII on December 7, and recovered on December 10, 1960, revealed that inner Van Allen radiation ...

... DISCOVERER XVIII launched into polar orbit by new Thor-Agena B from Vandenberg AFB , carrying surveillance-system ...

... of the earth's magnetic field on the nighttime side of the magnetosphere by EXPLORER XVIII ''(IMP I, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)'' , launched Nov. 26, 1963. Until recently, scientists had believed that the earth's magnetosphere was basically spherical; however, data from EXPLORER XVIII indicate that countless magnetic lines of force stretched out like the tail of a comet ...

NASA successfully launched EXPLORER XVIII , the Inter­planetary Monitoring Probe (Imp), from Atlantic Missile Range AMR on a Thor-Delta ... to have an apogee of 173,000 mi. and a perigee of 125 mi., EXPLORER XVIII was tracked as having an apogee of 122,800 mi. and a perigee of 120 ...

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