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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

... for the space program. It is and it must continue to be a national job." Discoverer XXXII was placed into polar orbit; its capsule contained components of USAF satellite systems. This marked ...

Capsule of Discoverer XXXII recovered by C-130 piloted by Capt. Warren Schensted, U.S. Air Force, the sixth ...

... by NASA when it was established in 1958, the 495-1b., 35-in.-dia. EXPLORER XXXII was designed to investigate temperatures, composition, densities, and pressure in the upper atmosphere and their ... maximum. Results had indicated more specialized measurements were needed to reveal basic atmospheric. processes. EXPLORER XXXII incorporated many improvements aimed at achieving this objective. ''(NASA Releases 66-96, 66-139; AP ...

... NASA Goddard Space Flight Center . ''(NASA Rpt. SRL)'' Tass reported Soviet Union had launched COSMOS XXXII , latest satellite in series of launches initiated in March 1962. Initial orbit: 333-km. apogee ... (130.5 mi.), 89.78-min. period, and 51.28¦ inclination to the equator. COSMOS XXXII re-entered earth's atmosphere June 18. ''(Pravda, 6/11/64, in MSFC SIN, 7 ...

... record information on radiation and meteoroids in moon's vicinity. ''(NASA Release 67-76)'' Explorer XXXII (AE-E) aeronomy satellite, launched May 25, 1966, had ground support terminated; satellite had suffered ... data until March 22. Last radio frequency contact had been made on March 26. Explorer XXXII mission objectives had been achieved and mission had been declared a success in December 1966 ...

... p.m. EDT and 3:11 p.m. EDT in conjunction with passage of EXPLORER XXXII satellite. Objective of series was to correlate measurements of properties, characteristics, and conditions of upper atmosphere obtained by rocket-borne experiments with similar measurements made by EXPLORER XXXII , second U.S. Atmosphere Explorer, launched May 25. Project was conducted by Goddard Space Flight ...

... orbiting of Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO III, Passive Geodetic Earth-Orbiting Satellite PAGEOS I, EXPLORERS XXXII and XXXIII satellites, and PIONEER VII interplanetary spacecraft. More than 300 meteorological sounding rockets and ...

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