System for orienting balloon payloads in space.
Balloon payload orientation system for viewing fixed position on celestial sphere
Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Kniffen, D. A..
Balloon payload orientation system for viewing fixed position on celestial sphere
Digitized spark chamber for charged particle and gamma radiation detection during balloon and satellite sounding
Balloon detector payload orientation to fixed point on celestial sphere
Gamma ray point sources search using oriented nuclear emulsions flown on high altitude balloons
Search for gamma radiation point sources with oriented nuclear emulsions on high altitude balloons
Nuclear emulsion measurements on particle populations in space using sounding rockets and Gemini spacecraft
Low energy galactic cosmic ray modulation
Spectral variation of low energy galactic cosmic ray protons and helium nuclei measured by balloon flights
Energy spectrum for geomagnetically trapped protons in inner van allen belt, from nuclear emulsion experiments during icbm flight
A description is given of the SAS-2 detector and its measurements of gamma ray sources greater than 30 MeV. Results indicate that gamma rays come from discrete energetic sources, the galactic plane, and diffuse presumably extragalactic regions not associated with the galactic plane.