Technique employed in first successful attempt at rocket astronomy; Aerobee-Hi sounding rocket carried aloft "telescope" composed of bundle of hypodermic needles placed in front of four ultraviolet sensitized photon counters which transmitted signals via radio telemetering to ground station; to obtain scan of sky, use was made of spin and precession motions of rocket.
Rocket astronomy -- Window into space
Astronautics
Astronautics ; 4 , n 1
1959
2 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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