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... a Saturn launch vehicle failure either on the pad or during powered flight. Little Joe II had been programed to carry the test vehicle, Boilerplate 22, to 22-mi,-altitude ... upper atmosphere electron density. The launching was timed to occur while Canadian satellite ALOUETTE was passing nearby. ALOUETTE 's instruments would provide a horizontal profile of ionospheric and ion densities and ...

... Sir Bernard Lovell . Director of England's Jodrell Bank Experimental Station which was tracking MARINER II , reportedly said that the Venus probe appeared destined to become the world's most ... new belt reached peak intensity. Also reportedly postponed was launching of Canada's S-27 Alouette satellite, planned for 625-mi. circular polar orbit. Center of peak electron intensity in the ...

... ("topside sounder") satellite, built by Canada and launched by NASA into orbit Sept. 28, 1962. ALOUETTE was still functioning well and transmitting ionospheric data to 13 telemetry stations around the world ... electron temperatures and densities with similar data obtained by ALOUETTE . Measurements were taken by the rocket payload in the ionosphere 10 min. before ALOUETTE passed through the region and made its measurements ...

... launched with Argo D-4 sounding rocket from Wallops Station, Va., into orbital path of ALOUETTE satellite. Preliminary data indicated measurements were made in upper ionosphere within two minutes of soundings ... from payload instruments would be compared with similar data transmitted simultaneously by ALOUETTE . Analysis of data later confirmed that ALOUETTE I data were valid. ''(Pres. Rpt. on Space, 1963, 1/27/64 ...

... 1962 on a Douglas Thor missile, similar to that which Blue Streak would have replaced. Alouette was delayed by over a year because the American Thor-Delta launch system originally proposed ... later than Blue Streak / Black Knight could almost certainly have launched two Alouettes. Britain contributed to the success of Alouette by providing two-way sounding and transmission in England, Nigeria and Singapore ...

Radio command signal to SYNCOM II communications satellite pulsed onboard gas jets to increase the satellite's 6,800-mph speed. ... , was expected to reach vicinity of the International Date Line in mid-May. There SYNCOM II would serve as backup for a third Syncom, scheduled for synchronous orbit over the Pacific ... on structure of the upper ionosphere pioneered by three satellites- EXPLORER VIII , ARIEL I , and ALOUETTE I -and a number of sounding rocket flights. ''(NASA Release 64 49; Av. Wk., 3 ...

... contractor. Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Limited and Engins Matra had jointly designed, developed, and manufactured Esro II satellite. TD-1 and TD-2 would be launched in 1970 and 1971 and would ... of ISIS-A was planned for early 1968 see Mar. 231. Like its predecessors (Alouettes I and II) , ISIS-A would be spheroid and have 11,000 solar cells on its outer ...

... inception of the Alouette / ISIS satellite missions in 1962, and a vigorous rocket program conducted at Fort Churchill and elsewhere. After the last Defence Research Board satellite, ISIS-II, was launched in ... is now leading a more mature program including Canada's first scientific mission since ISIS-II (SCISAT-1), the Earth-observing Radarsat-1 and a strong astronaut program. The final achievement ...

... in to handle simulations and human factors, and DSMA would handle the test equipment. ii Despite NASA having instigated this foreign involvement in the shuttle, American industry was dead ... satellite would operate on some of the principles already well understood from the ISIS and Alouette top-sounders. Certainly the wavelengths were different, but the principle of reflecting an electromagnetic ...

... off because of severe power drain encountered March 9. ''(NASA Release 63-56)'' Results from ALOUETTE I topside sounder satellite were discussed at Goddard Scientific Satellite Symposium, held by NASA in ... satellite were presented. Data from ARIEL confirmed ionospheric temperature relationship with latitude as detected by ALOUETTE I . Solar x-ray detectors found solar flares are made up of two phases-(1 ...

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