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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

... miles per hour by NASA's Joseph A. Walker at Edwards Air Force Base . USAF Discoverer XXX launched into polar orbit from Pacific Missile Range . September 1961 September Sep 1 1961 1 ...

USAF C-130B cargo plane snagged the parachuting capsule of Discoverer XXX north of Hawaii, Capt. W. C. Schmensted as pilot. White House released its reply to ...

... EXPLORER XXX ( International Years of the Quiet Sun IQSY Solar Explorer) was successfully launched by NASA from ... , 100.8 min,; inclination, 59,7°. Ninth SOLRAD Satellite developed by Naval Research Laboratory, EXPLORER XXX would monitor and measure x-ray emissions from the sun as part of the U ...

... -I were orbited. NASA orbited SECOR V for the U.S. Army, SOLRAD IX (EXPLORER XXX) for the U.S. Navy, and Early Bird EARLY BIRD I communications satellite for the ...

... . ''(Finney, NYT, 5/19/64,1)'' U.S.S.R. announced routine launching of COSMOS XXX satellite. Initial orbital data, according to Tass: 383.1-km. apogee ''(238 mi.)'', 206.6 ...

... satisfy scientific objectives. Expected lifetime was one year. First NRL-NASA solar monitoring project, Explorer XXX ''(IQSY Solar Explorer)'', had been launched Nov. 18, 1965, and had ceased operating Nov. 20 ...

... lunar landing. Basing their prediction on measurements of solar x-ray emissions taken by EXPLORER XXX ( International Quiet Sun Year IQSY Solar Explorer) satellite, Friedman and Kreplin explained that x-rays ...

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