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(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) CANBERRA, June 15. Australia is to use powerful radar equipment, installed at Carnarvon, Western Australia, for the man-in-space proprogramme, in tests to investigate the circulation of the upper atmosphere. The Minister for Supply, Mr Allen Fairhall, said yesterday a series of rocket firings would be made at Carnarvon in July, October, January, and April. An inflatable plastic sphere, 6ft in diameter, would be released at an altitude of 80 miles. In falling, the sphere would attain speeds of 2000 miles an hour, making it possible to gain information on density, pressure, temperature and wind velocity. The information would be of considerable interest to meteorological research work being carried out by the international Indian Ocean expedition in connexion with the international “year of the quiet sun.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30468, 16 June 1964, Page 7
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