The V-2s are being expended by a Panel composed of university and industrial scientists, who examine the requests of the organizations that wish to send scientific instruments aloft in the rockets.
In the late 19th century box kites, consisting of two or more connected open-ended boxes, started being used for sending meteorologic instruments aloft to measure wind velocity, temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity.
In this context the feasibility of a low cost method of water vapour measurements using an instrument carried aloft by a sounding rocket has been examined and some of the results discussed.
Skeptics also argue that the lower temperatures measured by the satellites are confirmed by instruments borne aloft by weather balloons.
Measurements taken by instruments carried aloft by aircraft and balloons over the past winter have found that temperatures in the crucial layer of the Arctic atmosphere were, indeed, among the lowest on record and that ozone losses of more than 60percentt occurred.
In the music video for "Intro to Shamstep," the four members of 47Soul dance through the streets of London over Arabic synth hooks and a driving, boom-thwack beat, holding their instruments and drums aloft.
Tells about the launching; the finding of the wreckage and what was left of the instruments and paraphernalia sent aloft.
Astronomical instruments had earlier been sent aloft on balloons and rockets, but satellites permitted vastly longer observing times and greater stability.
instruments; but a spectograph sent aloft by the Naval Research Lab.; the Univ. of Michigan put in 3 special bottles designed to open up at a given height, suck in samples of atmosphere and then reseal themselves.
Russia hasn't yet decided what to do with Mir, but RSA says the new instruments should allow ground control to keep the station aloft for a while after 23 August, when the last crew is scheduled to leave.
