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GM + Scintillator Cosmic Ray 1-Hour Average Count Data Logbook

NSSDC ID: SPMS-00510

Availability: At NSSDC, Ready for Offline Distribution (or Staging if Digital)

Time span: 1961-08-16 to 1961-12-06

Description

This reduced cosmic ray experiment data set is on one experimenter-submitted, 7-track, 800-bpi, IBM 7094, binary magnetic tape. The data set contains 55-min averages of counts from each of the three detectors, the counts from the scintillator telescope during all 5.12-min intervals, the averages of the Geiger-Mueller counter and single scintillator count data for each 6.83-min telemetry sequence, and all 1.6-s interval count values for the lowest discriminator level of the single scintillator, as well as the time and spacecraft height values. Included are data for the active lifetime of the spacecraft, August 16, 1961, to December 6, 1961, with about 80% coverage. Listings of the same data are available on two reels of microfilm as data set 61-020A-04D.

Discipline

  • Space Physics: Magnetospheric Studies

Old NSSDC ID

  • 61-020A-04B

Additional Information

Spacecraft

Experiments

Questions or comments about this data collection can be directed to: Coordinated Request and User Support Office.

 

Personnel

NameRoleOriginal AffiliationE-mail
Dr. Frank B. McDonaldGeneral ContactNASA Goddard Space Flight Center 

Selected References

NSSDC unpublished experiment documentation for Explorer 12 and 61-020A-04, Unpublished, Unnumbered, Oct. 1973.

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