Abstract

The great progress which has been made in the development of rocket motors of very high power and of methods of automatic guidance and control of rocket-propelled vehicles has been amply demonstrated by the launching, first of artificial satellites and then of deep space probes, capable of hitting the moon or passing beyond it to become artificial planets. The glare of publicity, however, does not fall to anything like the same extent on the scientific research which may be, and is being, carried out with the use of space vehicles. We begin by considering some of the branches of physical science which can benefit greatly from the availability of facilities for carrying out observations in space.

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