Vanguard III satellite, 1959 Eta, placed in orbit Sept 18 1959 contained proton precessional magnetometer of exceptional accuracy; paper reviews instrumentation employed and data collection and reduction procedures; analysis bears on accuracy of computed fields, stability of earth's field in space, Capetown anomaly, and magnetic-storm effects.


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    Title :

    Project vanguard magnetic-field instrumentation and measurements


    Additional title:

    NASA -- Tech Note


    Contributors:
    Heppner, J.P. (author) / Stolarik, J.D. (author) / Shapiro, I.R. (author) / Cain, J.C. (author)


    Publication date :

    1960


    Size :

    21 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :



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