A minimum orbital instrumented satellite - now
- Paper ID
IAK-53-15
- author
- company
Departement of physics university of maryland
- country
U.S.A.
- year
1953
- abstract
Within a few years our technology of building large rockets will have advanced to the stage where we can actually put a very small body into an orbit around the earth. The MOUSE (Minimum Orbital Unmanned Satellite, Expendable) would weigh about 100 pounds,- it would be unmanned. We should also be prepared to have it orbit for only a short time and then lose it. This project could pay its own way. With only a small payload of scientific instruments we could obtain information on solar radiations of immense importance to radio communication and to the problem of weather.