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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

USAF Discoverer XXIII placed into polar orbit from Pacific Missile Range but reentry capsule stayed in orbit. April ...

... Earth and the Sun (within 1,000 miles of error). Attempt to recover capsule from Discoverer XXIII unsuccessful. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory reported that Echo I satellite may remain in orbit another 3 ...

... . ''(Clark, NYT, 3/27/64, 7; M&R, 4/6/64, 26)'' Soviet satellite COSMOS XXIII burned up in the atmosphere between the Great Lakes and the northeastern Canadian coast, according ... Astrophysical Observatory officials at Cambridge, Mass., said they assumed the streak was the reentering COSMOS XXIII. ''(AP, Balt. Sun. 3/28/64; AP, NYT, 3/29/64, 31)'' At close of ...

NASA launched 295-lb. EXPLORER XXIII ''(S-55c)'' meteoroid detection satellite from Wallops Station, Va ., aboard a Scout vehicle. The satellite ... elements: apogee, 614 mi.; perigee 286 mi.; inclination to equator, 52°; period, 99 min. EXPLORER XXIII was expected to have a useful lifetime of one year. Its primary purpose was to ...

... EXPLORER XXIII and PEGASUS I meteoroid technology satellites continued to transmit useful information after months of operation ... the first spacecraft orbited specifically to measure meteoroid penetrations through spacecraft structures, Performance of EXPLORER XXIII had been entirely satisfactory, and indications were that it would have a useful life of ...

... closely our statistical computations based on results from PEGASUS I and EXPLORERS XVI and EXPLORERS XXIII XXIII . Continued successful operation of PEGASUS II will give us a good base for use by ...

... near-earth environment, a NASA report indicated. Based on data from EXPLORER's XVI and XXIII and PEGASUS I and report was presented by Charles T, D'Auitolo, NASA Hq, Office ... . EXPLORER XVI , launched Dec, 16, 1962, had registered 62 meteoroid penetrations during its lifetime, EXPLORER XXIII , launched Nov, 6, 1964, had reported 103 penetrations. PEGASUS I , launched Feb, 16, 1965, carried ...

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