SPACE RESEARCH - Volume 2 by Van de Hulst, H. C., C. de Jager, and A. F. Moore (eds) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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SPACE RESEARCH - Volume 2

by Van de Hulst, H. C., C. de Jager, and A. F. Moore (eds)

Amsterdam (Holland), 1961: North Holland Publishing Co., 1260 pages, $28.00 (available through Interscience Publishers,

This work is the Proceedings of the Second International Space Science Symposium, Florence, 1961. It is divided into nine parts on optical tracking and prediction service, radio tracking, dynamics of satellite motion, telemetry and data recovery, recent results from instrumented satellites and spacecraft, world magnetic survey, special events, reference atmosphere, and research by means of sounding rockets. Typical of many interesting contributions are "Optical Tracking of Satellites," "Observations of Soviet Artificial Satellites," "Radio Tracking of Earth Satellites," "The Mariner Planetary Communication System Design," "Some Results of Experiments in Interplanetary Space by Means of Charged Particle Traps on Soviet Space Probes," "Ionospheric Results with Sounding Rockets and the Explorer VIII Satellite," "Investigation of Meteor Dust by Means of Rockets and Artificial Satellites," "Some Results of Medical and Biological Investigations aboard Space-Ship Satellites (1960-1961)," "Sterilization of Interplanetary Vehicles," "Radiation Studies from Nuclear Emulsions and Metallic Components Recovered from Polar Satellite Orbits," "Introduction to a Proposal for an International Reference Atmosphere," "A Survey of NRL Rocket Research Results Obtained since the Last Cospar Meeting," "Preliminary Data on Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation in the Upper Atmosphere," and "First Italian Experiment Using Sodium Cloud Tech

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