Army Ordnance Satellite Program

Abstract

The following 82 pages contain high points of Army Ordnance satellite history, beginning with scientists Hermann Oberth and Robert Goddard after World War I. Still to be written is a detailed, technical account. However, a long and helpful step in this direction is this history's contemporary, called Explorers In Orbit, a technically oriented study prepared by Vitro Engineering Company for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. The Development Operations Division, ABMA, as well as the ABMA Historical Section have copies of this Vitro Study on file.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1958
Accession Number
ADA434326

Entities

People

  • David S. Akens
  • Paul H. Satterfield

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Astronautics
  • Congress
  • Cosmic Rays
  • Engineers
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Munitions
  • National Security
  • Payload
  • Personnel Management
  • Rocket Engines
  • Space Systems
  • Spacecraft
  • Telemetry Equipment
  • United States

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris