AVIONICS RESEARCH: SATELLITES AND PROBLEMS OF LONG RANGE DETECTION AND TRACKING by Glazier, E. V. D., E. Rechtin and J. Voge (eds) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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AVIONICS RESEARCH: SATELLITES AND PROBLEMS OF LONG RANGE DETECTION AND TRACKING

by Glazier, E. V. D., E. Rechtin and J. Voge (eds)

New York, 1960: Pergamon Press, Inc., 257 pages, $10.00

Contains papers presented at AGARD Avionics Panel Meeting in Copenhagen, October 1958. Subjects deal with radar observations, ground scatter by ionospheric radar, the Sun as a noise source, plasma motions by satellites in the ionosphere, electrohydrodynamic properties of satellites, IRBM reentry, radio observations of Soviet satellites, radar echos from satellites 1957 alpha and 1957 beta, Sputnik modulation patterns, tracking of satellites from coordinated Doppler receiving stations, etc.

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