Into the Thermosphere; The Atmosphere Explorers. NASA SP-490
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, 1987. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Quarto,. xii, 172 pages. Illustrations (some color). Figures. Appendices. Bibliography. Eric Burgess (1920 – March 2005) was an English consultant, lecturer and journalist, who wrote about the Pioneer program of space missions since the first tests in 1957. He was the science correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor in the period of many of the planetary probe launches, and was often the senior science reporter present at many of those events.
Burgess is credited with the original idea that the Pioneer probes should carry a message for extraterrestrial intelligences. He approached Carl Sagan about his idea, which eventually resulted in the Pioneer plaque. Burgess was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and British Interplanetary Society, and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Burgess was a charter members of the British Interplanetary Society. The need to study the lower thermosphere with the new instrument, data handling, and spacecraft technology available in the 1960s led to the formulation and establishment of the Atmospheric Explorer program. This book provides an overview of this program with particular emphasis on the AE3, AE4, and AE5 satellites, which represent early examples of problem-dedicated missions. Both the satellites and their instrumentation on the one hand and the experimental and scientific considerations in studying the thermosphere on the other are discussed. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Space, NASA, Thermosphere, Atmosphere Explorer Program, Satellites, Space Physics, Aeronomy, Mass Spectrometer, Data Handling, Geophysical Observations
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