ROCKET-BORNE INSTRUMENTATION TO MEASURE THE RATE OF IONIZATION AND RELATED PHENOMENA DURING AN AURORA.

Abstract

The scientific objectives of the experiments and the individual instruments flown on the Astrobee 200 sounding rocket AC 15.610 are discussed in detail. The rocket was instrumented for auroral studies and was launched from Fort Churchill, Manitoba, Canada on 8 December 1963. The instrumentation included a new detector to measure the rate of ion production during periods of abnormally large ionization and other detectors to measure such related phenomenon as particle fluxes and auroral line intensities. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 15, 1964
Accession Number
AD0610505

Entities

People

  • G. Davidson
  • O. Shepherd
  • R. Giacconi
  • Roger K. Smith
  • W. P. Reidy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Canada
  • Detectors
  • Instrumentation
  • Intensity
  • Ionization
  • Manitoba
  • Particle Flux
  • Particles
  • Production
  • Rockets
  • Sounding Rockets

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.