ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITES - Volumes 3, 4, and 5 by Kurnosova, L. V. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITES - Volumes 3, 4, and 5

by Kurnosova, L. V. (ed)

New York, 1961: Plenum Press, Inc., 576 pages, $15.00

Bound under one cover, these volumes were originally published by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The included papers deal with such subjects as satellite instrumentation, communications, tracking and trajectories. Typical titles in Volume 3 are: "The Capture Problem in the Three-Body Restricted Orbital Problem," "The Libration of a Satellite," "Perturbations in the Orbits of Artificial Satellites Caused by Air Resistance," "Tracking of Artificial Satellites Based on Expected Point of Arrival," "The Manometer Error Caused by Small Leaks in the Casing of a Satellite," and "On the Problem of the Interaction Between a Satellite and the Earth's Magnetic Field"; in Volume 4: "The Motion of an Artificial Satellite in the Normal Gravitational Field of the Earth," "Determination of Illumination Conditions and Periods of Illumination and Darkness for the Artificial Satellite," "Determination of the Parameters of the Orbit of an Artificial Satellite from the Results of Ground Measurement," "Magnetometers in the Third Soviet Earth Satellite," "Some Results of Measurement of Mass Spectra of Positive Ions in the Third Soviet Artificial Earth Satellite," "Cosmic Ray Measurements by Geophysical Rockets," and "An Artificial Comet as a Method for Optical Tracking of Cosmic Rockets"; and in Volume 5: "The Orbits of Cosmic Rockets in the Direction of the Moon," "Magnetic Measurements with the Second Cosmic Rocket," "Radiation Measurements During the Flight of the Second Lunar Rocket," "Results of a Study of Impacting of Meteoric Matter by Means of Instruments Mounted on Space Rockets," "Some Direction Control Problems in Interplanetary Space," and "Observation of Signals from the Third Soviet Artificial Earth Satellite, at Cape Chelyuskin."


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

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