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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 1954, reports on a meeting of the Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel held in September at the Naval Research Laboratory, Anacostia. The panel, chaired by James A. Van Allen, discussed high altitude and satellite vehicles and the International Geophysical Year. It covers rockets such as the Viking and Aerobee, a phased plan for artificial satellites, and funding from the National Science Foundation. The author also records a conversation with Van Allen about the instrumentation needed for high altitude rockets. The memo contains no UFO material.
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(1) A launching study to determine where and how the vehicle should be launched, the logistics requirements, and the range risks involved. following the completion of these four studies, construction of the actual vehicle will be commenced. It considers that successful completion of project will lead into the launching of a vehicle circular to the water 1400, i.e., an instrumented vehicle using a polar orbit at an altitude of 200 miles. It is expected that it would remain left for ten days while project could probably maintain its credit for those one months. It is never emphasized that if adequate backing is available for project, the right well be used during the international economical year. To lead great stress on the necessity for the United States being the first in launching an 100 man raid that project was absolutely essential to achieve this end. 8. In a matter of minutes several then gave a briefing on the Rodotone machine, as a tactical weapon, has a range of 170 miles with a trajectory apex of 10 miles. If used as a research tool, it has a vertical range of 170 miles with a maximum of about 100 pounds. The required shell which is now in preparation will have a vertical range of 270 miles with an allowance of 500 pounds. Rodotone machine is now consisting of the production of these miniles no research instrument. A shell will cost 70,000 to 70,200 per minile if more than one shell are produced. They have a space of approximately each 4.0. described to be developed as an airborne foot. The vehicle comprises two clusters of four rockets, the first cluster of seven acting as the first stage boundary, the second cluster of four constituting the second stage. It has a size of each 10 and a land of 10 pounds. Instruments normally from an altitude of 10,000 feet, it is designed to contour on a slope of 100 miles. It is planned to use either a flashing light or a folding radar reflector for tracking purposes. It is expected to set an altitude of 200 miles. With rockets I rockets, the second stage develops 100 miles. The missile has yet to be from vertically as a research instrument. The researchers indicated that the second stage cluster could be completed to carry 12 pounds of suggested toon-tering equipment. 12. 12. 12.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.