Solar‐spectra satellite
JAN 01, 1966
DOI: 10.1063/1.3048016
According to reports at the beginning of December, the latest US solar‐explorer satellite was “working perfectly.” The craft was launched from Wallops Island on Nov. 28 and is moving in an orbit inclined at 60° to the equator with an apogee of 54 8.7 miles and a perigee of 440.9 miles. It takes 100.8 min to go once around.
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© 1966 American Institute of Physics
