SCIENTIFIC USES OF EARTH SATELLITES by Van Allen, J. A. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III
From The Space Library
SCIENTIFIC USES OF EARTH SATELLITES
by Van Allen, J. A. (ed)
Ann Arbor (Michigan), 1956: University of Michigan Press, 316 pages, $10.00
An important contribution to artificial satellite literature, the book contains the 33 papers presented at the 1956 Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel meeting. It is divided into eight parts: optical tracking and interpretation of tracking data, instrumentation, atmospheric density and meteorology, solar and other astronautical observations, cosmic rays and auroral radiations, geomagnetic field, ionosphere, and meteorites. A second, 326 page, edition appeared in 1960.
Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III