Meeting of Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel

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altitude and in its forthcoming notification will carry 500 pounds to 125 miles altitude. The second rocket is the Acroboo which can carry 100 pounds payload to 65 miles altitude. In addition to these two, there is also the L1200 which is a system of launching a ice cream rocket from a "Gulliver" balloon. The launch is made at a balloon altitude of approximately 100,000 feet and the rocket carries 30 pounds of instrumentation to an altitude of 60 miles. Dr. Allen concluded his presentation by stating that, from here on, civilian upper atmosphere rocket research will probably be developed, due to lack of civilian funds, upon the military rockets being developed now by the Department of Defense. So then introduced Dr. Fred Simpson of the Harvard observatory for a discussion of North Satellite Vehicles (NVS).

5. Dr. Whitlea stated that the interests of civilian research and of the Department of Defense in 1977 are symonymous. He pointed out the main scientific mind which could be made through the 1977 which have contribution both to civilian science and to defense. These include meteorology, astronomy, solar-torrestrial relations, far ultraviolet and X-ray research, etc. In described the 1977 sequence to being in three phases as follows:

(1) The placing in orbit of an observable object (uninstructed) which could be seen either optically or by radar.

(2) The placing in orbit of an instrumented vehicle, "an unmanned physical laboratory". This place will be a progressive development starting with a very small vehicle similar to the winter vehicle, which will carry telescopes, equipment, larger capacity will be achieved as bigger and more reliable solar plants are developed. These latter will probably be nuclear or solar energy plants. Instrumentation starting with simple telescopes will progress through more complicated stages until television and finally a telescope is included. In last stage in this phase will be a remote controlled vehicle.

(3) The final phase of ISY will be the putting in orbit of a named satellite vehicle.

6. Ir. Whittle explained that the placing of a slug in orbit uses in force a first step in the process. He stated that such a vehicle even without instrumentation could produce useful coinciding results such as air density data and relative positions on the earth. The main problem in connection with a slug (where it is one of observation from the earth, which will require much study). This problem will be simplified if the HSV is on either an equatorial or a polar orbit, in regard to