ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITES - Volume 6 by Kurnosova, L. V. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITES - Volume 6

by Kurnosova, L. V. (ed)

New York, 1961: Plenum Press, Inc., 170 pages, $7.50

Like earlier volumes in the series, this was originally published by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The topics included are the influence of the flattening of the Earth on the motion of an artificial satellite; classification of the motions of an artificial Earth satellite about the center of mass; instrumentation for rocket measurements of free-electron concentration in the ionosphere; electron concentration in the ionosphere to altitudes of 420-470 km (measured during the IGY by means of electromagnetic radiation from Soviet geophysical rockets); results of measurements of the concentration of positive ions in the atmosphere (using ion traps mounted on the third Soviet Earth satellite); a study of interplanetary ionized gas, energetic electrons, and corpuscular solar emission, using three-electrode charged-particle traps set up on the second Soviet cosmic rocket; ionized gas and fast electrons in the Earth's neighborhood and interplanetary space; discovery of approximately 10-key electrons in the upper atmosphere; variation of the positive ion concentration with altitude according to mass-spectrometric data obtained with the third artificial Earth satellite; and short-period changes associated with solar activity in the intensity of the nuclear component of cosmic rays.

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