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Spectroscopy of Project Fire I, April 14, 1964
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
The Fire I test, April 14, 1964, was designed to study the heating of an Apollo-type reentry vehicle. The total reentry complex weighed approximately 230 kg and entered the upper atmosphere at a velocity of 11.5 km/s. The spectrum of the reentry complex has been studied in the wavelength range 8700 to 8800 Å, where 102 multiplets of 21 atoms and the band systems of 5 diatomic molecules have been identified. Comparisons with meteor spectra are made.
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- Research Article
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 13: Evolutionary and Physical Properties of Meteoroids , June 1971 , pp. 161 - 167
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- Copyright © NASA 1971