Fifty-one years of Los Alamos Spacecraft

Fenimore, Edward E.¹ 

[1] Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

关键词: NESDPS Office of Nuclear Energy Space and Defense Power Systems;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1154966
RP-ID  :  LA-UR-14-26934
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1154966

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

From 1963 to 2014, the Los Alamos National Laboratory was involved in at least 233 spacecraft. There are probably only one or two institutions in the world that have been involved in so many spacecraft. Los Alamos space exploration started with the Vela satellites for nuclear test detection, but soon expanded to ionospheric research (mostly barium releases), radioisotope thermoelectric generators, solar physics, solar wind, magnetospheres, astrophysics, national security, planetary physics, earth resources, radio propagation in the ionosphere, and cubesats. Here, we present a list of the spacecraft, their purpose, and their launch dates for use during RocketFest