SATELLITE ENVIRONMENT HANDBOOK by Johnson, F. S. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

SATELLITE ENVIRONMENT HANDBOOK

by Johnson, F. S. (ed)

Stanford (California), 1961: Stanford University Press, 155 pages, $5.50

Data on geophysical environment encountered by artificial Earth satellites are summarized and information is presented on the structure of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere, penetrating-particle radiation, solar radiation, micrometeorites, radio noise, thermal radiation from the Earth, and geomagnetism. A better summary of the outer atmosphere-space environment can not be found in the book literature. Dozens of tables and charts are included.

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