Accession Number:

ADA000018

Title:

An Ionospheric Total Electron Content Disturbance Associated with the Launch of NASA's Skylab.

Descriptive Note:

Environmental research papers,

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH LABS L G HANSCOM FIELD MASS

Personal Author(s):

• Mendillo,Michael
• Hawkins,Gerald S.
• Klobuchar,John A.

Report Date:

1974-07-29

Pagination or Media Count:

40.0

Abstract:

By monitoring the amount of Faraday rotation a plane polarized satellite signal experiences in traversing the ionosphere, it is possible to measure the total number of electrons in a column of unit cross section through the Earths ionosphere. Report discusses Ground-based total electron count observations and the Skylab launch electron loss mechanisms in the F-region diffusion of the Saturn V S-II plume in the ionosphere ionosonde observations and estimates of photochemical and aeronomic processes capable of depleting the expanding plume.

Descriptors:

• *IONOSPHERE
• *ELECTRON DENSITY
• *IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES
• ATMOSPHERIC MOTION
• FARADAY EFFECT
• IONOSPHERIC PROPAGATION

Subject Categories:

• Atmospheric Physics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE