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... DISCOVERER: THE STORY OF A SATELLITE''' by Chester, M. and S. B. Kramer ''New York, 1960: ... written for the younger reader, the book provides a good text-pictorial account of the Discoverer program, the only one available in the book literature. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated ...

Image:Discoverer13.jpg 200px Discoverer XIII satellite being presented to President Eisenhower Category:Spacecraft

Image:Discoverer14.jpg 200px Discoverer XIV satellite Category:Spacecraft

Image:Explorer19.jpg 200px Explorer 19 satellite Category:Spacecraft

USAF DISCOVERER XIX successfully launched into polar orbit from PMR carrying Project Midas test payload. President-elect Kennedy ...

... : apogee, 1,488 mi. ; perigee, 366 mi.; period, 115.8 min.; inclination, 78.62°. EXPLORER XIX , like EXPLORER IX , is an atmospheric density satellite. Because of its large surface area and ... variations in solar radiation, can be measured by into in the satellite's orbit. EXPLORER XIX was launched into polar orbit and, when tracked by NASA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ...

U.S.S.R. announced COSMOS XIX had been placed in orbit (519-km. apogee, 270-km. perigee, 92.2-min. period; ...

... he makes policy with very little approval above." ''(N YT, 10/7/632 23)'' COSMOS XIX transmissions have been picked up by the Sohio Research Center near Cleveland, Ohio. The Center ...

Astronomers at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observa­tory announced it was virtually impossible for EXPLORER XIX bal­loon satellite to be sighted by the naked eye, because even in the most ...

... satellite's atmospheric drag effects were correlated with those of a similar inflated sphere, EXPLORER XIX , orbited Dec. 19,1963. EXPLORER IX was the first satellite orbited by a solid-fuel ...

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