DORNIER
POST 3/73 ALPHA JET TRAINER_AEROS SATELLITE_Do-N FALKE WAL MERKUR
JAPAN_BRAZIL_SKYSERVANT UTILITY AIRCRAFT_ULTRASONIC TREATMENT FOR KIDNEY
STONES_AIR / WATER QUALITY REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEMS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE RESEARCH &
HISTORY MAGAZINE FOR GERMAN AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER, DORNIER
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AEROS satellites were to study
the aeronomy i. e. the science of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere, in
particular the F region under the strong influence of solar extreme ultraviolet
radiation. To this end the spectrum of this radiation was recorded aboard by
one instrument (of type Hinteregger) on the one hand and a set of 4 other
instruments measuring the most important neutral and ionized parameters at the
satellite's position on the other.
Aeros was built by Ball
Aerospace for a co-operative project between NASA and the Bundesministerium für
Foschung und Technologie (BMwF), Federal Republic of Germany.
Named for the Greek god of the
air at the suggestion of the BMwF .
AEROS A and B carried identical
instrumentation only the instrument measuring short scale variations of the
electron density didn't work on A. A third Aeros C was planned for Earth
Resources studies in a 3-axis spin-stabilized configuration, to be launched by
a Shuttle in 1986