Timeline for Why is this rocket transparent, and why is there a nozzle in the nose, pointing up?
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| Oct 25, 2018 at 16:43 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
| Jul 30, 2018 at 23:35 | comment | added | Organic Marble | That's what the source document calls it, but I think it's an early design model. The flight models seem to be "spheres with a cylinder attached" like Vanguard 3. I notice quite a few subtle differences between the model in the question and the one in the answer. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 23:29 | comment | added | uhoh | Thanks, I will dig into this after coffee. I'm guessing IGY is International Geophysical Year where nailing the Earth's oblateness through orbital tracking was one of the major goals, and the Fischer Ellipsoid of 1960 was a result, but I'll start to read up on the importance of magnetometers as well. To double check, this i.sstatic.net/pKSwx.jpg is an "IGY magnetometer satellite"? | |
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| Jul 30, 2018 at 19:15 | history | answered | Organic Marble | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
