MOON AND VENUS RADAR PASSIVE SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS

Abstract

Radar echoes were obtained from the planet Venus. More than 100 routine doppler observations of satellites were made and the reduced results sent to the Spacetrack organization. A series of observations of Sputnik III were made in conjunction with five other European stations and the results jointly analysed for ionospheric data. In the field of moon radar a continuing programme was started to study the ionosphere by means of the Faraday rotation observed in the returned signals. Experiments were also made to establish the feasability of a moon-echo communications system. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1960
Accession Number
AD0271741

Entities

Organizations

  • University of Manchester

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Angular Motion
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmosphere (Earth)
  • Biological Phenomena
  • Data Acquisition
  • Ecological And Environmental Phenomena
  • Environment
  • Ionosphere
  • Motion
  • Observation
  • Rotation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Software Engineering
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris