Download or read book ROCKET INSTRUMENTATION FOR SOLAR ECLIPSE MEASUREMENTS - 12 NOVEMBER 1966 written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report details instrumentation designed to measure the parameters in the D-region of the ionosphere during a total solar eclipse. Four Nike-Hydac rockets were fired from Cassino, Brazil, in connection with the eclipse of 12 November 1966; a test flight round was flown on 5 November, and the remaining three rockets were fired during various phases of the eclipse on 12 November. The rocket payloads were identical and were designed to measure the following parameters: Positive ion composition, Positive ion density, Positive ion energy distribution, X-ray flux, Lyman-alpha radiation, Electron density, Electron temperature.