Major space missions utilizing satellites or sounding rockets managed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center between August 1959 and December 1969 were documented. The information was presented in the following form: (1) description of each satellite project where Goddard was responsible for the spacecraft or the successful launch or both, with data such as launch characteristics, objectives, etc.; (2) description of each Goddard sounding rocket project, with the following data: sounding rocket type, vehicle number, experimental affiliation, and type of experiment; (3) brief description of current sounding rockets and launch vehicles; (4) table of tracking and data acquisition stations. Summary tables are also provided.


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    Title :

    Encyclopedia of Satellites and Sounding Rockets, August 1959 - December 1969


    Publication date :

    1970


    Size :

    333 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English