Abstract: Careful consideration of the heat transfer equations for a rocket-borne stratospheric temperature sensor in the form of a spherical bead thermistor coupled with an experimental analysis of the physical, thermodynamic and ...

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Abstract: Atmospheric temperature sensing elements studied in this report are presently being used at Meteorological Rocket Network stations. The steady-state solution to the heat transfer equation is given for a thermistor which ...

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Abstract: Theoretical and experimental studies have led to the development and fabrication of a rocketborne beta-ray densitometer for the direct determination of atmospheric density in the 30?65 km atmospheric interval. Comparison ...

Abstract: A balloon, the second In a series of high-altitude balloon flights, was launched to a record altitude of 50 km from White Sands Missile Range, N.M., on 22 September 1969. The 8.7 ? 105 cubic meter, helium-filled, zero-pressure, ...