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Instrumentation of the NRL Solar Eclipse Rocket, 7 March 1970

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

G. E. Brückner
G. E. Brückner*
Affiliation:
E. O. Hulbert Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory, Wash. D.C., U.S.A.

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Five different Wadsworth mounting spectroheliographs have been flown into the total solar eclipse on 7 March 1970, on top of an Aerobee 170 rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia. Details of the instruments will be discussed. The new pointing system, consisting of a combination of inertial and target guidance, will be described.

Type
Part III: UV Astronomy
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 41: New Technique in Space Astronomy , 1971 , pp. 348
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971