Meteorological Satellites: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Applications and Tracking, and Data Acquisition of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representative, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on Progress of Meteorological Satellite Development and ApplicationsUnited States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Applications and Tracking and Data Acquisition U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 421 pages |
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activities Agena Agena B coordinator agencies antenna areas atmospheric sciences axis camera CARTWRIGHT Center Chairman chart cloud Colonel CoWAN Colonel JONES Colonel PEACOCK command committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contractors cooperation countries data acquisition Department of Defense earth equipment established facilities field flight forecasting FULTON funds GARDNER GSFC HECHLER HINES JMSAC JOHNSON launch vehicle system LMSC 03 ment meteorological satellite military requirements MSFC NASA Nimbus program Nimbus project Nimbus satellite Nimbus spacecraft observations operational system orbit Organization outer space peace Port O'Connor possible problems Project Development Plan project manager question radiation REICHELDERFER resolution responsibility ROUSH satellite program satellite system schedule SINGER solar Soviet Union spacecraft station subsystem sun sensor system manager tape technical telemetry temperature TEPPER tion Tiros satellites tracking U.S. Weather Bureau United Nations users WATERMAN weather modification weather satellite World Meteorological Organization
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