SATELLITES AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH by King-Hele, D. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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SATELLITES AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

by King-Hele, D.

New York, 1960: Dover Publications, Inc., 180 pages, $4.00

The book covers the life history of individual satellites and looks into the laws of satellite motion, tracking, scientific experiments, and discoveries made with individual satellites (radiation zones, sources of magnetism, space temperatures, irregularities in the atmosphere, the nature of the outer atmosphere, the shape of the Earth, etc.). The book is semi-technical, with mathematical formulae being gathered in an appendix. Details as given on satellites and spacecraft beginning with Sputnik 1 and ending with Pioneer 4 (size, weight, velocity, orbit, lifetime, instrumentation, and the like).


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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