The program objective was to produce a fully automatic weather station, capable of operating for long periods untended; the sensed data to include surface and upper atmosphere parameters, similar to the data currently being supplied by the manned weather stations throughout the world. A U.S. Navy NOMAD buoy, currently operating as a surface weather station, was modified to include a cluster of sounding rockets. Following each surface weather transmission a rocket is launched carrying a rocketsonde which commences transmissions at apogee. The data is relayed, via the buoy, to monitoring shore stations. The work reported covers the development of a prototype version. The parameters of wind speed and wind direction for the upper atmosphere were not included during this phase of the program. (Author)


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