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BY NORADNORTHCOMCSO SEPTEMBER 2009
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LQng bbullse Hnu JOhonlcl give finr resolution NEW MlCROMETEORiri eET~ClOR Mgt Y GiVE SAME ERRONEOHS DATA THAf PREbECESSElR GAVE ~
May also be lOOrdirgtg high -uruirgy 1)TOLoll amp
A lJTOMATmiddotEll BTOOD - COliNT SYSTEM COULD FIND (iSE ON LONC SPACE bullFLrGfS UNDJn_ SEA ~USSlONS ~
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sig middotnifieant
intelligence
on space
developments
and trends
Recsat Cosmos317 -Maneuvers 3 Times in 3 Oays Deorbit-ed After 13-Day FfightkSr
The SoViet rriiljtary reconn~igtampsance satellite Cosmos 317 wliilth the Soviet~ launched int~ a middot nominal 65-degree ~rbit op 23 December maneushyvemiddotred as follows middot
Time and Date Maneuver middot Ghange Orbital Period middot 0920-Z 24 Decembel Incr-eas~ct py 18 s~ ecqndmiddots
1S-06Z Zs Decerrihet Decr~as~d Py 29 seconds ~120middotampz 26 December ~ctea~-~d by 12 seconds
of in
Gpsmiddotmos 317 ismiddot thcent Soviets 4th known phot~re~c~ satellite capable of maneuver-ing~ Th-e others we-re middotGosmoses 25t ~64 and 280 Maneuvedng can increasmiddote the flexibility opound taxgel coverage
middot The Soviets deorbited Cosmos 3-17 on Revolution 205 on 5 January 1970 after a flightmiddot ofsii~tly ~~re ~ l3 days Im-pact-middot is estimated to--hav-e
OCcqrredmiddot at aJol-~ 0-7~ 9Z-in th_e viciliity pf 504-SN-S~OOE about 70middot n middotm southshy east of Orenburg_ (NORAD (SECRET)
middot Franco~middot soviet Solar 1nterterometer Wi II Have One Sensor on Earth Ofbet on Mo_on (UJ
France and the USSR repltgtrteQ1y are prepaiing te middote stablish amiddot radio intetferotneter tp n1e~s~r~ solar r~ci io~ave ~ctivity which Wi_ll have an Earth~ Moon baselinemiddot that i-s one -receivemiddotr orr the Momiddoton ancl a second q_ne 9n tlfe Earth Prelliddnary obaervations atoe Qe1ngm~de now hi France on the 18-shyltenthneter wave hand with flie b~IP o-f Soviet equipmeRt (OFFICJAL USE middot ON-Lyen)
The anten~as -for this middotamb1tious project nltrined Ste-remiddoto will be 5-middotmeter -dishes The Sociiets will lancl one dish on th-e Moon the other dish waU_he
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WIR 2 70 9 Jan 70 middot
operated at Nancy France A deployabl-e dish 5 metermiddot ~ in diameter could have adequate surface accuracy tQr 18-centimete~ waVes artd could fit under the shroud oi the SL-12 propulsion system) whicenth the Soviets would be exshypected to use fo1 ~ending the d~sh to the Moon The payload would probably be simila~ to that opoundmiddot Luna 15 which landed on the Moon--- SOBJewhat harder than the S0viets exp-ected -- la-st July But Jlhis proJect witt probably be delayed considerably if the Soviets middotcontiuue to ~xperience d~iculty with their SL-12 space booster or with their soft lander payload
The proposed radio-interferotneter could prtivide extremely high resoshyluHon in measuring sol~Jlt raqiowavemiddot ratliation But the system would have to be designed to overcbme differences in envh-orunental radio-background noiae and wouid have to takeuro into middotascount the apprltgt-Ximat~ 125-second lapse in relaying signals from the lunar receiver ~o the Earth the pr-oblem of simultaneous pointing of the two d~shemiddots and the effects of the great temperashyture extremes of the lunar -$ Urfa~e on the equipment landed qn t4e Moon
The dish o~ the lunar sutfac~ if used alone could he oeneficial1 since much of the radio noise experiencedmiddot 15y eart1ipo~nd raqiotelemiddotscopes would be absent However the hig~ re1Sdlution of the int~rfeTcgt~etfr ~ystem using an Earth-Moon base line would be lost if the receiv~~ on the Moon were used independently (CIA)
(6ECRE1 NFDReleasable to US UK amp Canmiddot
middotNew Micrnmeteorite Deteetor May Give Same Erroneous Data That Predecessmiddotor-GaveJer
A recen-t Soviet article desCribes the u~emiddot of luminescent det~etors on Cosmos 213 Zond 5 and Zond 6 t-o measure the density and enellgy charshyact~ristics of m~teor particles hi spacemiddot Light flasjhes made when a particle strikes the luminescent panel are hansfor~ intO ~lectriC~l smiddotignats which are amplified by a photomultiplier Maximum sensgtifi~ty cit fhe inta-unre~t is reported at~O ergs which is equJvaleJ)t to a pa~ti~le with a mass of 0 oooooooooo3 gtarn impacting with a velbemiddotitymiddotof 15 kilorn~te1 S (8 I n m - per second
The ne~ middoti~txument may howeveT suifer from middotthmiddote same limitation which causes older ins~~~e~ts Jp _gjve_ ~e Soviet~ -~~aneoue data
The atthor opound the middotrecent Soviet articte haO plev-iau$ly m9unied plez-oshyelectric trallsducers on s~v~rlt~l early ~atellitemiddot s to measure the nutnber of micrometeorife impacts ~he data thus derived ledner to the conclus~ion th~t there is a dust cloud arounQ the earth in which the number opound impacts of micrometeorite particles is consiQerably g~ater than w_ovJd bemiddot encounshytemiddotred in ~middott)terplanetaty space Liter Sovi~t data middotW~nmiddote consistent with US estimates showed that the n-um4eT o impaets w as ~0-nsidt~J~b~y l~$8 than had been ~stilnated Bcent d~ata coliected Wi~th~new inshument again ~eads to the dust-cloqd hypothesis
_Tal_middot bull - shy
W1R 270 middot9 Jan 76
US data obtained wlth instrtiments baaedon simila-r pdndples s4owed that middotnot only niicentr(unmiddoteteorites b~t highe~e~gy protons fa compenent o-f
cosmic rays both poundrom the sun and from far-0ff celestial middotbodies) could t middotrigger the middotlight iflash Thus the tl~W Soviet i1lStrIJtqellt will again peld erroneo-qs data if it cagtnnot distinguish between highenergy-pr()ton and micrOmetemiddotorite impacts I~ will not be po~middotSible however to make a final determination of the validity of the new data until more is known about the instrumentation and experimental techniques used (CIA) (GO~TFIDEP~TIAL NF~DReleasable to US UK amp Can)
Automated Blood-Count System Could Find Use On Long_SpaceFlights Undersea Missions~
The Soviets _h-avemiddot developed a fechnique which wil enable real-tne readouts opound the r~latiy~ countmiddots pf the jh~~e tmiddotype~ of white eell~ fo~d iQ human blood Such a techt1ique would o~ advanc-edbve~ the lJSmiddot s system yvhich r-equilleS Iill~~y hciU-ra to obta)lla ~~pll o~t_
The new Soviet technique involves a middotscan tisiDg color TV to give voltage read-outs propo~tional to the nurnber qpound whi1re ceUs of ea~h type Nonmedical per-sonnel would be able to m~ke diiferential counts of the red eosinophile blue ltbasophils and pink-to-y_ellow neutrophilemiddot in real time~
This teoliniqae could be u~e~~l dur~ hig mapPed s~ye flights and ~ndermiddotshysea mlsmiddotsionmiddots of long dur~tion It could middotbe a diagppstic aid to iJe crew phys i cian middot or it Gcould enablemiddot parame~icral persenne1 tcgt rea~ oet infOxmation es~ful as presumptiye evidence for a number of p-athological conditions middot middot
Although the Soviet-s ar-e striving~ t middoto be able to 1nake onhoard diagnos~sshywith automated devi~es - th~ developrn~nt of operational Jlight hardware for middotmedical dlagnosmiddotis probably will take years (CIA) (GOflFIDENIIAL NFDReleasable to qs UK ~- Can)
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1ssue No 210 9middotJanuary ino
The WtR in Brief
Portion identified as nonshy3 llresponsive to the appeal
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RBGSrltt C0St$0S 3)7middot MAtbullfEU~RS ~ Tl~S rN 3 DA-tS PEORBi nED aittR- middotu-aAY trcrrrft
MA11laquoruVampraa OnoZbullr 2Smiddot ooudmiddot 26 Dec~mber F~ANCO- soyiEi SOLAR mTilitr~middotEiWMElER W~lL lA~l 0~~ SJNS01HlN SARTH OIIiER ON MOO~ (iJ) I
LQng bbullse Hnu JOhonlcl give finr resolution NEW MlCROMETEORiri eET~ClOR Mgt Y GiVE SAME ERRONEOHS DATA THAf PREbECESSElR GAVE ~
May also be lOOrdirgtg high -uruirgy 1)TOLoll amp
A lJTOMATmiddotEll BTOOD - COliNT SYSTEM COULD FIND (iSE ON LONC SPACE bullFLrGfS UNDJn_ SEA ~USSlONS ~
Rellltirno readout- ~y middotriotlrndleli) pu-rs 0iu1ui pou i tl6 )1 middotoyi (om is i~~Y middot dc~ltHopeq
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(Photo OUO) So_vi~t N~tvall3EA~ D a
l-~~QnnUt~llapce flir oerali wlilcb halt no ~uiplt)n Zar~yo~ oapability (~~CRiT) 1ag_ea Z2 Z3 bull inil ~6 o_t thls iltoue are middot blaok
r- middotshyl I
sig middotnifieant
intelligence
on space
developments
and trends
Recsat Cosmos317 -Maneuvers 3 Times in 3 Oays Deorbit-ed After 13-Day FfightkSr
The SoViet rriiljtary reconn~igtampsance satellite Cosmos 317 wliilth the Soviet~ launched int~ a middot nominal 65-degree ~rbit op 23 December maneushyvemiddotred as follows middot
Time and Date Maneuver middot Ghange Orbital Period middot 0920-Z 24 Decembel Incr-eas~ct py 18 s~ ecqndmiddots
1S-06Z Zs Decerrihet Decr~as~d Py 29 seconds ~120middotampz 26 December ~ctea~-~d by 12 seconds
of in
Gpsmiddotmos 317 ismiddot thcent Soviets 4th known phot~re~c~ satellite capable of maneuver-ing~ Th-e others we-re middotGosmoses 25t ~64 and 280 Maneuvedng can increasmiddote the flexibility opound taxgel coverage
middot The Soviets deorbited Cosmos 3-17 on Revolution 205 on 5 January 1970 after a flightmiddot ofsii~tly ~~re ~ l3 days Im-pact-middot is estimated to--hav-e
OCcqrredmiddot at aJol-~ 0-7~ 9Z-in th_e viciliity pf 504-SN-S~OOE about 70middot n middotm southshy east of Orenburg_ (NORAD (SECRET)
middot Franco~middot soviet Solar 1nterterometer Wi II Have One Sensor on Earth Ofbet on Mo_on (UJ
France and the USSR repltgtrteQ1y are prepaiing te middote stablish amiddot radio intetferotneter tp n1e~s~r~ solar r~ci io~ave ~ctivity which Wi_ll have an Earth~ Moon baselinemiddot that i-s one -receivemiddotr orr the Momiddoton ancl a second q_ne 9n tlfe Earth Prelliddnary obaervations atoe Qe1ngm~de now hi France on the 18-shyltenthneter wave hand with flie b~IP o-f Soviet equipmeRt (OFFICJAL USE middot ON-Lyen)
The anten~as -for this middotamb1tious project nltrined Ste-remiddoto will be 5-middotmeter -dishes The Sociiets will lancl one dish on th-e Moon the other dish waU_he
I
WIR 2 70 9 Jan 70 middot
operated at Nancy France A deployabl-e dish 5 metermiddot ~ in diameter could have adequate surface accuracy tQr 18-centimete~ waVes artd could fit under the shroud oi the SL-12 propulsion system) whicenth the Soviets would be exshypected to use fo1 ~ending the d~sh to the Moon The payload would probably be simila~ to that opoundmiddot Luna 15 which landed on the Moon--- SOBJewhat harder than the S0viets exp-ected -- la-st July But Jlhis proJect witt probably be delayed considerably if the Soviets middotcontiuue to ~xperience d~iculty with their SL-12 space booster or with their soft lander payload
The proposed radio-interferotneter could prtivide extremely high resoshyluHon in measuring sol~Jlt raqiowavemiddot ratliation But the system would have to be designed to overcbme differences in envh-orunental radio-background noiae and wouid have to takeuro into middotascount the apprltgt-Ximat~ 125-second lapse in relaying signals from the lunar receiver ~o the Earth the pr-oblem of simultaneous pointing of the two d~shemiddots and the effects of the great temperashyture extremes of the lunar -$ Urfa~e on the equipment landed qn t4e Moon
The dish o~ the lunar sutfac~ if used alone could he oeneficial1 since much of the radio noise experiencedmiddot 15y eart1ipo~nd raqiotelemiddotscopes would be absent However the hig~ re1Sdlution of the int~rfeTcgt~etfr ~ystem using an Earth-Moon base line would be lost if the receiv~~ on the Moon were used independently (CIA)
(6ECRE1 NFDReleasable to US UK amp Canmiddot
middotNew Micrnmeteorite Deteetor May Give Same Erroneous Data That Predecessmiddotor-GaveJer
A recen-t Soviet article desCribes the u~emiddot of luminescent det~etors on Cosmos 213 Zond 5 and Zond 6 t-o measure the density and enellgy charshyact~ristics of m~teor particles hi spacemiddot Light flasjhes made when a particle strikes the luminescent panel are hansfor~ intO ~lectriC~l smiddotignats which are amplified by a photomultiplier Maximum sensgtifi~ty cit fhe inta-unre~t is reported at~O ergs which is equJvaleJ)t to a pa~ti~le with a mass of 0 oooooooooo3 gtarn impacting with a velbemiddotitymiddotof 15 kilorn~te1 S (8 I n m - per second
The ne~ middoti~txument may howeveT suifer from middotthmiddote same limitation which causes older ins~~~e~ts Jp _gjve_ ~e Soviet~ -~~aneoue data
The atthor opound the middotrecent Soviet articte haO plev-iau$ly m9unied plez-oshyelectric trallsducers on s~v~rlt~l early ~atellitemiddot s to measure the nutnber of micrometeorife impacts ~he data thus derived ledner to the conclus~ion th~t there is a dust cloud arounQ the earth in which the number opound impacts of micrometeorite particles is consiQerably g~ater than w_ovJd bemiddot encounshytemiddotred in ~middott)terplanetaty space Liter Sovi~t data middotW~nmiddote consistent with US estimates showed that the n-um4eT o impaets w as ~0-nsidt~J~b~y l~$8 than had been ~stilnated Bcent d~ata coliected Wi~th~new inshument again ~eads to the dust-cloqd hypothesis
_Tal_middot bull - shy
W1R 270 middot9 Jan 76
US data obtained wlth instrtiments baaedon simila-r pdndples s4owed that middotnot only niicentr(unmiddoteteorites b~t highe~e~gy protons fa compenent o-f
cosmic rays both poundrom the sun and from far-0ff celestial middotbodies) could t middotrigger the middotlight iflash Thus the tl~W Soviet i1lStrIJtqellt will again peld erroneo-qs data if it cagtnnot distinguish between highenergy-pr()ton and micrOmetemiddotorite impacts I~ will not be po~middotSible however to make a final determination of the validity of the new data until more is known about the instrumentation and experimental techniques used (CIA) (GO~TFIDEP~TIAL NF~DReleasable to US UK amp Can)
Automated Blood-Count System Could Find Use On Long_SpaceFlights Undersea Missions~
The Soviets _h-avemiddot developed a fechnique which wil enable real-tne readouts opound the r~latiy~ countmiddots pf the jh~~e tmiddotype~ of white eell~ fo~d iQ human blood Such a techt1ique would o~ advanc-edbve~ the lJSmiddot s system yvhich r-equilleS Iill~~y hciU-ra to obta)lla ~~pll o~t_
The new Soviet technique involves a middotscan tisiDg color TV to give voltage read-outs propo~tional to the nurnber qpound whi1re ceUs of ea~h type Nonmedical per-sonnel would be able to m~ke diiferential counts of the red eosinophile blue ltbasophils and pink-to-y_ellow neutrophilemiddot in real time~
This teoliniqae could be u~e~~l dur~ hig mapPed s~ye flights and ~ndermiddotshysea mlsmiddotsionmiddots of long dur~tion It could middotbe a diagppstic aid to iJe crew phys i cian middot or it Gcould enablemiddot parame~icral persenne1 tcgt rea~ oet infOxmation es~ful as presumptiye evidence for a number of p-athological conditions middot middot
Although the Soviet-s ar-e striving~ t middoto be able to 1nake onhoard diagnos~sshywith automated devi~es - th~ developrn~nt of operational Jlight hardware for middotmedical dlagnosmiddotis probably will take years (CIA) (GOflFIDENIIAL NFDReleasable to qs UK ~- Can)
9 WIR 27Q 9 Jan 70
secre-t
r- middotshyl I
sig middotnifieant
intelligence
on space
developments
and trends
Recsat Cosmos317 -Maneuvers 3 Times in 3 Oays Deorbit-ed After 13-Day FfightkSr
The SoViet rriiljtary reconn~igtampsance satellite Cosmos 317 wliilth the Soviet~ launched int~ a middot nominal 65-degree ~rbit op 23 December maneushyvemiddotred as follows middot
Time and Date Maneuver middot Ghange Orbital Period middot 0920-Z 24 Decembel Incr-eas~ct py 18 s~ ecqndmiddots
1S-06Z Zs Decerrihet Decr~as~d Py 29 seconds ~120middotampz 26 December ~ctea~-~d by 12 seconds
of in
Gpsmiddotmos 317 ismiddot thcent Soviets 4th known phot~re~c~ satellite capable of maneuver-ing~ Th-e others we-re middotGosmoses 25t ~64 and 280 Maneuvedng can increasmiddote the flexibility opound taxgel coverage
middot The Soviets deorbited Cosmos 3-17 on Revolution 205 on 5 January 1970 after a flightmiddot ofsii~tly ~~re ~ l3 days Im-pact-middot is estimated to--hav-e
OCcqrredmiddot at aJol-~ 0-7~ 9Z-in th_e viciliity pf 504-SN-S~OOE about 70middot n middotm southshy east of Orenburg_ (NORAD (SECRET)
middot Franco~middot soviet Solar 1nterterometer Wi II Have One Sensor on Earth Ofbet on Mo_on (UJ
France and the USSR repltgtrteQ1y are prepaiing te middote stablish amiddot radio intetferotneter tp n1e~s~r~ solar r~ci io~ave ~ctivity which Wi_ll have an Earth~ Moon baselinemiddot that i-s one -receivemiddotr orr the Momiddoton ancl a second q_ne 9n tlfe Earth Prelliddnary obaervations atoe Qe1ngm~de now hi France on the 18-shyltenthneter wave hand with flie b~IP o-f Soviet equipmeRt (OFFICJAL USE middot ON-Lyen)
The anten~as -for this middotamb1tious project nltrined Ste-remiddoto will be 5-middotmeter -dishes The Sociiets will lancl one dish on th-e Moon the other dish waU_he
I
WIR 2 70 9 Jan 70 middot
operated at Nancy France A deployabl-e dish 5 metermiddot ~ in diameter could have adequate surface accuracy tQr 18-centimete~ waVes artd could fit under the shroud oi the SL-12 propulsion system) whicenth the Soviets would be exshypected to use fo1 ~ending the d~sh to the Moon The payload would probably be simila~ to that opoundmiddot Luna 15 which landed on the Moon--- SOBJewhat harder than the S0viets exp-ected -- la-st July But Jlhis proJect witt probably be delayed considerably if the Soviets middotcontiuue to ~xperience d~iculty with their SL-12 space booster or with their soft lander payload
The proposed radio-interferotneter could prtivide extremely high resoshyluHon in measuring sol~Jlt raqiowavemiddot ratliation But the system would have to be designed to overcbme differences in envh-orunental radio-background noiae and wouid have to takeuro into middotascount the apprltgt-Ximat~ 125-second lapse in relaying signals from the lunar receiver ~o the Earth the pr-oblem of simultaneous pointing of the two d~shemiddots and the effects of the great temperashyture extremes of the lunar -$ Urfa~e on the equipment landed qn t4e Moon
The dish o~ the lunar sutfac~ if used alone could he oeneficial1 since much of the radio noise experiencedmiddot 15y eart1ipo~nd raqiotelemiddotscopes would be absent However the hig~ re1Sdlution of the int~rfeTcgt~etfr ~ystem using an Earth-Moon base line would be lost if the receiv~~ on the Moon were used independently (CIA)
(6ECRE1 NFDReleasable to US UK amp Canmiddot
middotNew Micrnmeteorite Deteetor May Give Same Erroneous Data That Predecessmiddotor-GaveJer
A recen-t Soviet article desCribes the u~emiddot of luminescent det~etors on Cosmos 213 Zond 5 and Zond 6 t-o measure the density and enellgy charshyact~ristics of m~teor particles hi spacemiddot Light flasjhes made when a particle strikes the luminescent panel are hansfor~ intO ~lectriC~l smiddotignats which are amplified by a photomultiplier Maximum sensgtifi~ty cit fhe inta-unre~t is reported at~O ergs which is equJvaleJ)t to a pa~ti~le with a mass of 0 oooooooooo3 gtarn impacting with a velbemiddotitymiddotof 15 kilorn~te1 S (8 I n m - per second
The ne~ middoti~txument may howeveT suifer from middotthmiddote same limitation which causes older ins~~~e~ts Jp _gjve_ ~e Soviet~ -~~aneoue data
The atthor opound the middotrecent Soviet articte haO plev-iau$ly m9unied plez-oshyelectric trallsducers on s~v~rlt~l early ~atellitemiddot s to measure the nutnber of micrometeorife impacts ~he data thus derived ledner to the conclus~ion th~t there is a dust cloud arounQ the earth in which the number opound impacts of micrometeorite particles is consiQerably g~ater than w_ovJd bemiddot encounshytemiddotred in ~middott)terplanetaty space Liter Sovi~t data middotW~nmiddote consistent with US estimates showed that the n-um4eT o impaets w as ~0-nsidt~J~b~y l~$8 than had been ~stilnated Bcent d~ata coliected Wi~th~new inshument again ~eads to the dust-cloqd hypothesis
_Tal_middot bull - shy
W1R 270 middot9 Jan 76
US data obtained wlth instrtiments baaedon simila-r pdndples s4owed that middotnot only niicentr(unmiddoteteorites b~t highe~e~gy protons fa compenent o-f
cosmic rays both poundrom the sun and from far-0ff celestial middotbodies) could t middotrigger the middotlight iflash Thus the tl~W Soviet i1lStrIJtqellt will again peld erroneo-qs data if it cagtnnot distinguish between highenergy-pr()ton and micrOmetemiddotorite impacts I~ will not be po~middotSible however to make a final determination of the validity of the new data until more is known about the instrumentation and experimental techniques used (CIA) (GO~TFIDEP~TIAL NF~DReleasable to US UK amp Can)
Automated Blood-Count System Could Find Use On Long_SpaceFlights Undersea Missions~
The Soviets _h-avemiddot developed a fechnique which wil enable real-tne readouts opound the r~latiy~ countmiddots pf the jh~~e tmiddotype~ of white eell~ fo~d iQ human blood Such a techt1ique would o~ advanc-edbve~ the lJSmiddot s system yvhich r-equilleS Iill~~y hciU-ra to obta)lla ~~pll o~t_
The new Soviet technique involves a middotscan tisiDg color TV to give voltage read-outs propo~tional to the nurnber qpound whi1re ceUs of ea~h type Nonmedical per-sonnel would be able to m~ke diiferential counts of the red eosinophile blue ltbasophils and pink-to-y_ellow neutrophilemiddot in real time~
This teoliniqae could be u~e~~l dur~ hig mapPed s~ye flights and ~ndermiddotshysea mlsmiddotsionmiddots of long dur~tion It could middotbe a diagppstic aid to iJe crew phys i cian middot or it Gcould enablemiddot parame~icral persenne1 tcgt rea~ oet infOxmation es~ful as presumptiye evidence for a number of p-athological conditions middot middot
Although the Soviet-s ar-e striving~ t middoto be able to 1nake onhoard diagnos~sshywith automated devi~es - th~ developrn~nt of operational Jlight hardware for middotmedical dlagnosmiddotis probably will take years (CIA) (GOflFIDENIIAL NFDReleasable to qs UK ~- Can)
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operated at Nancy France A deployabl-e dish 5 metermiddot ~ in diameter could have adequate surface accuracy tQr 18-centimete~ waVes artd could fit under the shroud oi the SL-12 propulsion system) whicenth the Soviets would be exshypected to use fo1 ~ending the d~sh to the Moon The payload would probably be simila~ to that opoundmiddot Luna 15 which landed on the Moon--- SOBJewhat harder than the S0viets exp-ected -- la-st July But Jlhis proJect witt probably be delayed considerably if the Soviets middotcontiuue to ~xperience d~iculty with their SL-12 space booster or with their soft lander payload
The proposed radio-interferotneter could prtivide extremely high resoshyluHon in measuring sol~Jlt raqiowavemiddot ratliation But the system would have to be designed to overcbme differences in envh-orunental radio-background noiae and wouid have to takeuro into middotascount the apprltgt-Ximat~ 125-second lapse in relaying signals from the lunar receiver ~o the Earth the pr-oblem of simultaneous pointing of the two d~shemiddots and the effects of the great temperashyture extremes of the lunar -$ Urfa~e on the equipment landed qn t4e Moon
The dish o~ the lunar sutfac~ if used alone could he oeneficial1 since much of the radio noise experiencedmiddot 15y eart1ipo~nd raqiotelemiddotscopes would be absent However the hig~ re1Sdlution of the int~rfeTcgt~etfr ~ystem using an Earth-Moon base line would be lost if the receiv~~ on the Moon were used independently (CIA)
(6ECRE1 NFDReleasable to US UK amp Canmiddot
middotNew Micrnmeteorite Deteetor May Give Same Erroneous Data That Predecessmiddotor-GaveJer
A recen-t Soviet article desCribes the u~emiddot of luminescent det~etors on Cosmos 213 Zond 5 and Zond 6 t-o measure the density and enellgy charshyact~ristics of m~teor particles hi spacemiddot Light flasjhes made when a particle strikes the luminescent panel are hansfor~ intO ~lectriC~l smiddotignats which are amplified by a photomultiplier Maximum sensgtifi~ty cit fhe inta-unre~t is reported at~O ergs which is equJvaleJ)t to a pa~ti~le with a mass of 0 oooooooooo3 gtarn impacting with a velbemiddotitymiddotof 15 kilorn~te1 S (8 I n m - per second
The ne~ middoti~txument may howeveT suifer from middotthmiddote same limitation which causes older ins~~~e~ts Jp _gjve_ ~e Soviet~ -~~aneoue data
The atthor opound the middotrecent Soviet articte haO plev-iau$ly m9unied plez-oshyelectric trallsducers on s~v~rlt~l early ~atellitemiddot s to measure the nutnber of micrometeorife impacts ~he data thus derived ledner to the conclus~ion th~t there is a dust cloud arounQ the earth in which the number opound impacts of micrometeorite particles is consiQerably g~ater than w_ovJd bemiddot encounshytemiddotred in ~middott)terplanetaty space Liter Sovi~t data middotW~nmiddote consistent with US estimates showed that the n-um4eT o impaets w as ~0-nsidt~J~b~y l~$8 than had been ~stilnated Bcent d~ata coliected Wi~th~new inshument again ~eads to the dust-cloqd hypothesis
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US data obtained wlth instrtiments baaedon simila-r pdndples s4owed that middotnot only niicentr(unmiddoteteorites b~t highe~e~gy protons fa compenent o-f
cosmic rays both poundrom the sun and from far-0ff celestial middotbodies) could t middotrigger the middotlight iflash Thus the tl~W Soviet i1lStrIJtqellt will again peld erroneo-qs data if it cagtnnot distinguish between highenergy-pr()ton and micrOmetemiddotorite impacts I~ will not be po~middotSible however to make a final determination of the validity of the new data until more is known about the instrumentation and experimental techniques used (CIA) (GO~TFIDEP~TIAL NF~DReleasable to US UK amp Can)
Automated Blood-Count System Could Find Use On Long_SpaceFlights Undersea Missions~
The Soviets _h-avemiddot developed a fechnique which wil enable real-tne readouts opound the r~latiy~ countmiddots pf the jh~~e tmiddotype~ of white eell~ fo~d iQ human blood Such a techt1ique would o~ advanc-edbve~ the lJSmiddot s system yvhich r-equilleS Iill~~y hciU-ra to obta)lla ~~pll o~t_
The new Soviet technique involves a middotscan tisiDg color TV to give voltage read-outs propo~tional to the nurnber qpound whi1re ceUs of ea~h type Nonmedical per-sonnel would be able to m~ke diiferential counts of the red eosinophile blue ltbasophils and pink-to-y_ellow neutrophilemiddot in real time~
This teoliniqae could be u~e~~l dur~ hig mapPed s~ye flights and ~ndermiddotshysea mlsmiddotsionmiddots of long dur~tion It could middotbe a diagppstic aid to iJe crew phys i cian middot or it Gcould enablemiddot parame~icral persenne1 tcgt rea~ oet infOxmation es~ful as presumptiye evidence for a number of p-athological conditions middot middot
Although the Soviet-s ar-e striving~ t middoto be able to 1nake onhoard diagnos~sshywith automated devi~es - th~ developrn~nt of operational Jlight hardware for middotmedical dlagnosmiddotis probably will take years (CIA) (GOflFIDENIIAL NFDReleasable to qs UK ~- Can)
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US data obtained wlth instrtiments baaedon simila-r pdndples s4owed that middotnot only niicentr(unmiddoteteorites b~t highe~e~gy protons fa compenent o-f
cosmic rays both poundrom the sun and from far-0ff celestial middotbodies) could t middotrigger the middotlight iflash Thus the tl~W Soviet i1lStrIJtqellt will again peld erroneo-qs data if it cagtnnot distinguish between highenergy-pr()ton and micrOmetemiddotorite impacts I~ will not be po~middotSible however to make a final determination of the validity of the new data until more is known about the instrumentation and experimental techniques used (CIA) (GO~TFIDEP~TIAL NF~DReleasable to US UK amp Can)
Automated Blood-Count System Could Find Use On Long_SpaceFlights Undersea Missions~
The Soviets _h-avemiddot developed a fechnique which wil enable real-tne readouts opound the r~latiy~ countmiddots pf the jh~~e tmiddotype~ of white eell~ fo~d iQ human blood Such a techt1ique would o~ advanc-edbve~ the lJSmiddot s system yvhich r-equilleS Iill~~y hciU-ra to obta)lla ~~pll o~t_
The new Soviet technique involves a middotscan tisiDg color TV to give voltage read-outs propo~tional to the nurnber qpound whi1re ceUs of ea~h type Nonmedical per-sonnel would be able to m~ke diiferential counts of the red eosinophile blue ltbasophils and pink-to-y_ellow neutrophilemiddot in real time~
This teoliniqae could be u~e~~l dur~ hig mapPed s~ye flights and ~ndermiddotshysea mlsmiddotsionmiddots of long dur~tion It could middotbe a diagppstic aid to iJe crew phys i cian middot or it Gcould enablemiddot parame~icral persenne1 tcgt rea~ oet infOxmation es~ful as presumptiye evidence for a number of p-athological conditions middot middot
Although the Soviet-s ar-e striving~ t middoto be able to 1nake onhoard diagnos~sshywith automated devi~es - th~ developrn~nt of operational Jlight hardware for middotmedical dlagnosmiddotis probably will take years (CIA) (GOflFIDENIIAL NFDReleasable to qs UK ~- Can)
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