Some Experimental Techniques of Space Research — Ionospheric Measurements

Abstract

Despite the relatively short period, still less than two decades, since the inception of space research, a wide variety of techniques has been used in experiments conducted from rockets and satellites. The great majority of these have been adapted, often with only trifling modifications, from well-known laboratory experiments. In the course of this chapter and the next some of these techniques are briefly described, with the intention rather of providing typical examples than a comprehensive description. Other descriptions of important experiments will be found elsewhere in this book, particularly in the Seminar by Professor R. L. F. Boyd, (Chapter 38, p. 453) and in Chapter 2 by Professor C. de Jager (p. 26).