Box MS-006 Box 4

This collection consists of the papers of T.S.G. Sastry, a scientist who made significant contributions to the field of space research in India. Sastry was also one of the earliest PhD students at the Physics Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, working under Vikram Sarabhai.

This collection consists of the papers of T.S.G. Sastry, a scientist who made significant contributions to the field of space research in India. Sastry was also one of the earliest PhD students at the Physics Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, working under Vikram Sarabhai.

This collection consists of the papers of T.S.G. Sastry, a scientist who made significant contributions to the field of space research in India. Sastry was also one of the earliest PhD students at the Physics Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, working under Vikram Sarabhai.

Table of data, Altitude vs. E_z x 2 (vertical component of Electric field).

Prints of data from microfilm slides in MS006-3-0-6-4, MS006-3-0-6-5, MS006-3-0-6-6. Dated 13-10-72, 3-3-73.

Folder also contains: pictures of instruments; photographs of descent plots dated 3-3-73; photograph of Rubidium Magnetometer Data Reduction System; wiring diagrams; printed data taken at Bangalore and Tiruchirapalli.

Graphs dated February 1978 through May 1979.

Folder contains blueprints for electronic components, produced by the Radiation Instrument Development Laboratory.

Contains two blueprints made by NASA on Payload Separation and Pyrotechnic Wiring. Also includes blueprints made by Radiation Instrument Development Laboratory for NASA's Model 14, and blueprints made by Nita Majumdar for a Micropulse Preamp Model CR-2.

Folder contains a number of blueprints of electronic components from the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California.

Folder contains pulse height analyzer diagrams and Schematic Logic Circuitry diagrams from Matrix Research and Development Corp. Also includes Cosmic Ray Detector Schematic Diagrams from Ball Brother Corporation.

Folder contains two graphs from Explorer XIV, October 1962, Additional 3 enlarged graphs of Explorer XIV from Jan 4, 1963 and three circuit diagrams from Radiation Instrument Development Laboratory Inc, Northlake, Illinois. Attachments from the University of California, OGO Shift Registers and Accumulator System are also included, dated from April 1962.

Folder contains a variety of handwritten notes, schematics and graphs regarding solar cosmic ray experiments. A letter included with the material suggests that this data is associated with Sastry's work in University of California, Berkeley.

Pulse Height Analyzer waveform data; two circuit diagrams produced by The Matrix Research and Development Corporation, Nashua, New Hampshire (15.10.1962); Circuit diagram produced by Ball Brothers Corporation, Colorado (31.08.1962).

Handwritten notes on Tokyo University letterheads; annotated graph sheets; wiring diagrams related to data reduction systems for proton magnetometers and block diagrams.

Handwritten notes: "Notes from J.B Birk's Scintillation Counters"; on Rubidium Vapour Magnetometer, pulse amplifiers Graveson and Sadowski. One page containing list of songs deleted in digital version of file but remains in the physical record.

Report with sections titled Time Correlated Performance Data, Telemetry, Test Program Information, Measurement and Other requirements (pp 3-13); 5 figures titled Nike Apache Vehicle Configuration, 14.424 GI Payload, 14.425. GI Payload, Nike Igniter Circuit - Model No. XM-69, Capache Igniter Circuit Model No. TE-P-354-10.

Graphs with X axis labelled Altitude in Kms. One is titled "Near Simultaneous Measurement of J and Ey over Thumba" and plots Current Density in Amp/Km2 against Altitude in km2. Also includes some unused graph sheet templates.

Two copies of the report by Sastry, provides details of magnetometer payload launches at Thumba. Letter from L. Cahill to Vikram Sarabhai, dated 4.11.63, details Sastry's work at UNH.

Folder contains an annotated resume with a description of Sastry's experience in rocket and satellite payload construction

Attached to the Appendix is a booklet about the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Colaba, Bombay 5

Folder contains two copies of a list of Sastry's publications created on 18.12.73 and updated in January of 1983.

Copy of the Sastry's self evaluation report submitted to PRL. Annotated by Sastry.

Two page report on Rubidium magnetometer, its status, and telemetry components.

Folder contains a document titled "Proposed Rocket Experiments 1981-1990" which details rocket requirements. Another untitled document gives a report of Sastry's work and collaborations with French, American, Japanese and British scientists. An annotation on this document states "For Rastogi" 26.2.80. A list of publications is also included in the folder.

Two copies of an agenda for an ISRO meeting at the headquarters in Bangalore, 13-14/2/1985. Annotation on one states "Info regarding request for rocket collaboration for experiments."

Solar Cosmic Ray Experiment - EGO Time Table to Prototype.

Sheet compares requirements of PRL, TIFR, NPL, VSSC, ISAC, IIG.

Annotated lecture notes on satellite launches and orbits.

Notes regarding the measurement of horizontal and vertical electric field components.

Folder contains two copies of the application, application consists of a detailed resume and a statement of research experience in the field of telemetry and payload construction.

This collection consists of the papers of T.S.G. Sastry, a scientist who made significant contributions to the field of space research in India. Sastry was also one of the earliest PhD students at the Physics Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, working under Vikram Sarabhai.