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

Image:Explorer14.jpg 200px Explorer XIV satellite Category:Spacecraft

... 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

... were received by the University of Manchester at Jodrell Bank and other British installations. USAF DISCOVERER XIV launched into polar orbit from Vandenberg AFB , Calif. USAF-Army COURIER IA communications satellite failed ...

... an object from space, when USAF C-119 transport snared the 300-pound capsule of DISCOVERER XIV at 10,000 feet, Capt. H. F. Mitchell (USAF) as pilot of the C-119 ...

... the airborne capture of 3000 ft of exposed film from the return capsule of the Discoverer XIV mission signalled the start of the United States satellite reconnaissance programme. The approximately 860,000 ...

... NASA Goddard Space Flight Center were hopeful the satellite might eventually resume normal operations. EXPLORER XIV developed transmission difficulty Jan. 10, after 100 days of nearly continuous transmission. Project Manager Paul ... did not believe radiation damage to be cause of satellite’s transmission malfunction. ''(NASA EXPLORER XIV Prog. Rpt. No. 4 ; NASA Release 63-6)'' TELSTAR communications satellite relayed pictures of opening ...

... ; NASA Rpt. of Sounding Rkt. Launching)'' After 10 months of satisfactory operation in orbit, EXPLORER XIV scientific satellite, with its six experiments to measure energetic particles and magnetic fields in space ... . During the 10 months, data acquisition stations received 6,003 hrs. of data from EXPLORER XIV , of which more than 4,500 hrs. were digi­tized and 3,200 hrs. were sent to the six experimenters. ''(NASA EXPLORER XIV Prog. Rpt. No. 5 )'' Joint U.S.-U.K.-Australian Project Dazzle to study behavior ...

NASA EXPLORER XIV satellite progress report indicated no usable scientific data had been obtained from the scientific sat­ ... its ten months of operation since launch into highly elliptical orbit Oct. 2; 1962, EXPLORER XIV sent back more than 6,500 hours of data from the six onboard scien­tific ... hours of data had been processed through computers and scientific analysis was continuing. ''(NASA Explorer XIV Prog. Rpt. No. 6)'' Press briefing on contracting procedures for Lunar Orbiter space­craft held ...

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