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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 XXVIII (total payload weight of 2,100 pounds) launched but did not attain orbit. Tiros II ...

... , 7/5/68, 26; W Post, 7/8/68, A6; 7/9/68, A7)'' Explorer XXVIII, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform launched by NASA May 29, 1965, to investigate earth's magnetosphere and ... reentry area)''-joint effect of sun and moon would alter orbit and cause Ex­plorer XXVIII to make high-angle reentry and burn up in earth's at- mosphere. Computer tests ...

... ''(Les VI)'', two Environmental Research Satellites ''(Ers XXI, also called OV V-4; and Ers XXVIII, also called OV V-2)'', and one Orbiting Vehicle research satellite ''(OV 11-5)''. Powered ... -mi ''(181.4-km)'' perigee, 631-min period, and 26.2° inclination. Booster ejected Ers XXVIII ''(OV V-2)'' into orbit with 22,236-mi ''(35,777.7-km)'' apogee, 115 ...

NASA successfully launched EXPLORER XXVIII Interplanetary Monitoring Probe (Imp-C) from ETR on a three-stage Thor-Delta booster. A ... , and the solar wind throughout its highly elliptical orbit. Confused telemetry signals from the EXPLORER XXVIII for 3½ hrs. after launching made it seem the spacecraft had not separated from the ...

U.S.S.R. announced routine launching of COSMOS XXVIII Initial orbital data: apogee, 395 km. (245 mi.) ; perigee, 209 km. (130 mi.); period, 9038 ...

... previous satellites launched in NASA's Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) series, two of which- Explorer XXVIII (launched May 29, 1965) and Explorer XXXIII (launched July 1, 1966)-were still operating and ...

... achievement." ''(Text)'' NASA's Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO I, launched Sept. 4, 1964, and EXPLORER XXVIII (IMP-c), launched May 29, 1965, had yielded data essential to evolution of an accurate ...

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