The Aerospace Instrumentation Laboratory manages the research vehicle program for AFCRL. It serves as a consultant to the AFCRL users of these vehicles, as well as to AFCRL contractors and to those in other military and government agencies that call upon AFCRL for balloon and rocket launch assistance. It organizes the ground telemetry network associated with such launches, selects the appropriate vehicles for the experiment, assists in the instrumentation and manages the actual flight and payload recovery. During the three-year reporting period, the Laboratory launched 166 large research sounding rockets, 277 smaller meteorological sounding rockets and 384 large plastic balloons. The Laboratory also designed and managed the launch of three AFCRL instrumented satellites. Several new balloon records with respect to size, altitude and payload weight were set by the Laboratory during the period. (Author)


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    Aerospace instrumentation

    Gregory, R. | Tema Archive | 1970