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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 16 September 1954, reports on a September meeting of the Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel at the Naval Research Laboratory, Anacostia, chaired by James A. Van Allen. It summarizes briefings on the capabilities of research rockets such as the Viking and Aerobee and on a three-phase earth satellite program. It also covers Project Orbiter planning and funding for the International Geophysical Year. The author concludes that a satellite could likely be orbited by that year given high government priority.
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SUBJECT: Hosting of Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel 1. At the invitation of Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, I attended a meeting of the Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Center on 6 September at the Naval Research Laboratory, Anacostia. The two articles of primary concern were: 1) Higher Altitude and Satellite Vehicles, 2) International Geophysical Icr, and the logistics therefor. 2. This panel was formed in 1943 by representatives of various organizations which were concerned with upper atmosphere research through rocketry. It is chaired by Mr. James A. Van Allen who is Chairman of the Department of Physics, State University of Iowa. The panel has representation from Abhorde Grove, Grounds, University of Michigan, Winsor Normal Laboratory, General Electric Company, Naval Research Laboratory, Air Force Barbridge Research Center, California Institute of Technology, and Harvard Observatory. It has no official connection with any department of Institute organization but is informally supported by the Office of Naval Research. In connection with the artificially international convention year, it has been examined the function of developing the United States program for upper atmosphere research through the use of high altitude rockets. 3. At the 9 September meeting, there were in addition to the panel itself, representatives from the Chief of Uniform, United States Army, the Joint Command, the Land Corporation, the Office of Naval Research, Aerospace Development Corporation, Air Force ADF, HQB, National Science Foundation, etc. the discussion of the first agenda item - all armored and satellite vehicles - by a discussion of past minor cases are research with rockets. He cited the extensive use of 2,000 pounds payload to a 100 miles altitude but the supply of which has now been exhausted. He mentioned the 100-meter which was not used as a single strike vehicle, primarily because it could carry only 25 pounds to an altitude of 100 miles. The 100-meter was heavier, and on the second stage in combination with the V-2 and modified an altitude of 200 miles. When examination of the V-2 model, the other rockets have been developed and used as civilian missiles for purposes. These are the Viking which in its present form can carry 100 pounds payload to 135 miles SEP 29 1954 och/16/1RK
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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. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.