SCIENTIFIC USES OF EARTH SATELLITES by Van Allen, J. A. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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SCIENTIFIC USES OF EARTH SATELLITES

by Van Allen, J. A. (ed)

Ann Arbor (Michigan), 1956: University of Michigan Press, 316 pages, $10.00

An important contribution to artificial satellite literature, the book contains the 33 papers presented at the 1956 Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel meeting. It is divided into eight parts: optical tracking and interpretation of tracking data, instrumentation, atmospheric density and meteorology, solar and other astronautical observations, cosmic rays and auroral radiations, geomagnetic field, ionosphere, and meteorites. A second, 326 page, edition appeared in 1960.


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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