Engineering feasibility study of a kilometer wave orbiting telescope, phase 2 Final report

Engineering feasibility study on structural dynamics, antenna electrical properties, and systems of kilometer wave orbiting telescop

Investigation of galactic and planetary radio astronomy Third semiannual status report, Jan. - Jun. 1965

Galactic and planetary radio astronomy - sounding rocket launch, orbiting telescope, carbon-oxygen complex photochemistry, Mars ionosphere, topside electron density, and nonrigid bodie

OGO-3 data reduction. OGO-2 and 4 data analysis Final technical report, 30 Sep. 1967 - 15 Aug. 1968

Data processing summary for OGO radio astronomy experiment

Investigation of Galactic and Planetary Radio Astronomy Status Report, Jul. - Dec. 1965

Sounding rocket flight to measure cosmic radiation intensity and studies of Martian atmosphere and ionospher

Results from Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 1 Final scientific report

Operational performance of radiometer antenna on OGO-

Data user's notes of the radio astronomy experiment aboard the OGO-V spacecraft

General information concerning the low-frequency radiometer, instrument package launching and operation, and scientific objectives of the flight are provided. Calibration curves and correction factors, with general and detailed information on the preflight calibration procedure are included. The data acquisition methods and the format of the data reduction, both on 35 mm film and on incremental computer plots, are described

The Objectivity of Ordinary Life

Metaethics tends to take for granted a bare Democritean world of atoms and the void, and then worry about how the human world that we all know can possibly be related to it or justified in its terms. I draw on Wittgenstein to show how completely upside-down this picture is, and make some moves towards turning it the right way up again. There may be a use for something like the bare-Democritean model in some of the sciences, but the picture has no standing as the basic objective truth about the world; if anything has that standing, it is ordinary life. I conclude with some thoughts about how the notion of bare, “thin” perception of non-evaluative reality feeds a number of philosophical pathologies, such as behaviourism, and show how a “thicker”, more value-laden, understanding of our perceptions of the world can be therapeutic against them

Engineering Feasibility Study of a Kilometer Wave Orbiting Telescope, Phase 1 Final Report

Radio telescope, rhombic antenna, and sensors studied for feasibility of kilometer wave orbit telescope progra

Instrumentation for radio astronomy measurements aboard the IMP-I spacecraft

The design considerations and performance parameters of a satellite-borne instrumentation system are discussed. The system is designed to make radio astronomy measurements at eight discrete frequencies from 50 kHz to 3.53 MHz. These measurements are to detect solar and Jovian radio frequency bursts and to determine the average cosmic background radiation level down to 50 kHz. Procedures used for preflight and inflight calibration of the radiometer and the ground support equipment used for preflight testing are described

The Disjunctive Conception of Perceiving

John McDowell's conception of perceptual knowledge commits him to the claim that if I perceive that P then I am in a position to know that I perceive that P. In the first part of this essay, I present some reasons to be suspicious of this claim - reasons which derive from a general argument against 'luminosity' - and suggest that McDowell can reject this claim, while holding on to almost all of the rest of his conception of perceptual knowledge, by supplementing his existing disjunctive conception of experience with a new disjunctive conception of perceiving. In the second part of the essay, I present some reasons for thinking that one's justification, in cases of perceptual knowledge, consists not in the fact that one perceives that P but in the fact that one perceives such-and-such. I end by suggesting that the disjunctive conception of perceiving should be understood as a disjunctive conception of perceiving such-and-such