The Gun-Launched Space Probe

Series

Series Name

London Line (Colour series 2)

Issue

Issue No.

31

Date Released

1968

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Gun-Launched Space Probe
2. 2Prototype Capsule Kitchen Of The 1970s
3. 3The Camera That Is An X-ray Machine
4. 4Focussing Spectacles

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: London Line reports on film from Barbados on the research work carried out by scientists at Britain’s Sussex University, and in the studio Michael Smee talks to Dr Pamela Rothwell about the possibility of using this cheap space probe method to measure electric fields in the ionosphere.

Keywords

Science and technology; Space

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1394/31

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Commonwealth Affairs Office

Sponsor

Foreign Office

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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