Vacuum Ultraviolet Airglow and Stellar Observations on the MSMP/TEM-1 Rocket Flight

Vacuum Ultraviolet Airglow and Stellar Observations on the MSMP/TEM-1 Rocket Flight
Author: Robert E. Huffman
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Total Pages: 64
Release: 1980
Genre: Airglow
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This report describes airglow and stellar observations made on the TEM-1 rocket flight as a part of the Multispectral Measurements Program (MSMP). The observations were in the 1100 to 3000 A wavelength range from 65 to about 230-km altitude, and they include a number of scans of the viewing direction through the earth's horizon. Night airglow emissions observed include the hydrogen Lyman alpha geocorona and the oxygen Herzberg bands. A number of stars were observed including alpha-Eridanus, which is found to match previous intensity measurements. The instrumentation consists of filter photometers with 10 x 10 element digicon spatial detectors and a spectrometer using a 1 x 36 element digicon for spectral resolution. The report describes the instrumentation, discusses the observations, and compares the results with previous measurements. (Author).

NASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968

NASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968
Author: William R. Corliss
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Total Pages: 180
Release: 1971
Genre: Sounding rockets
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Sounding rockets provided the first means to carry instruments to the outermost reaches of the Earth's atmosphere. They were, indeeed, our first space vehicles. As Mr. Corliss relates in this history, in this day of satellites and deep space probes, sounding rockets remain as important to space science as ever, furnishing our most powerful means for obtaining vertical profiles of atmospheric properties. NASA continues to depend on sounding rockets for research in astronomy, meteorology, ionospheric physics, exploratory astronomy, and other disciplines.