Satellite is cone shaped, 5 ft 8 in. in diam at base, 11 ft 8.5 in. high; total weight 2925.5 lb, instruments and power sources alone 2134 lb; hermetical shell of sputnik is of Al; instruments in holding frames in rear and forepart and attached to shell, are listed together with their locations.
Instrumentation in third Soviet Sputnik
J Sci Indus Research
Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research ; 17A , n 10
1958
3 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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