Upper Atmosphere Research Panel
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The Upper Atmosphere Research Panel, also known as the V-2 Panel, was formed in 1946 to oversee experiments conducted using V-2 rockets brought to the United States
United States
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 after World War II
World War II
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. The experiments studied the upper atmosphere, solar radiation and X-ray astronomy, as well as the technology of the V-2 rocket
Rocket
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.

Members

An organizing meeting was held at Princeton University
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 27 Feb 1946.

The original committee members were:
  • Ernst Henry Krause
    Ernst Henry Krause
    Dr Ernst H. Krause was an American nuclear physicist and aerospace executive. He participated in early radar and rocketry research at the Naval Research Laboratory, including experiments to study the upper atmosphere after World War II using captured V-2 rockets...

    , Naval Research Laboratory
  • G. K. Megerian (secretary), General Electric Co.
  • W. G. Dow, University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
    The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

  • M. J. E. Golay, U.S. Army Signal Corps
  • C. F. Green, General Electric Co.
  • K. H. Kingdon, General Electric Co.
  • M. H. Nichols, Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

  • James Van Allen
    James Van Allen
    James Alfred Van Allen was an American space scientist at the University of Iowa.The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following the 1958 satellite missions in which Van Allen had argued that a Geiger counter should be used to detect charged particles.- Life and career :* September...

    , Johns Hopkins University
    Johns Hopkins University
    The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

  • Fred Lawrence Whipple
    Fred Lawrence Whipple
    Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for over 70 years...

    , Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...


See also

  • Operation Paperclip
    Operation Paperclip
    Operation Paperclip was the Office of Strategic Services program used to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany for employment by the United States in the aftermath of World War II...

  • Hermes project
    Hermes project
    The Hermes project was an United States Army Ordnance Corps rocket program ....

  • List of V-2 test launches
  • USA V-2 period

Sources

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