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FUSEE SONDAGE [8 records]

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Record 1 2010-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Spacecraft
  • Atmospheric Physics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Physique de l'atmosphère

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de monografías
  • Naves espaciales
  • Física de la atmósfera
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Record 2 2010-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
DEF

A rocket research vehicle designed to be carried by a balloon to a very high altitude before being fired.

CONT

1957. The State University of Iowa completed "Rockoon" (balloon-launched rocket) research at high latitudes which had begun in 1952. ... U.S. scientific satellite equipment, including a radio transmitter and instruments for measuring temperature, pressure, cosmic rays, and meteoric dust encounters, was tested above Earth for the first time, as a rocket containing this equipment was fired by the Navy to a 126-mile altitude.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
CONT

Sondage par ballon et fusée. Système de sondage à haute altitude dans lequel la fusée de sondage est emportée en altitude par un grand ballon et est mise à feu près de la hauteur maximale que peut atteindre le ballon.

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Spacecraft
  • Remote Sensing
DEF

Any unmanned rocket that is designed to probe atmospheric conditions and structure at heights (80-160 km [50-100 miles]) beyond the reach of airplanes and balloons but impractical to explore by means of artificial satellites.

CONT

A sounding rocket usually has a vertical trajectory as it travels through the upper atmosphere carrying a payload of scientific instruments.

OBS

rocketsonde: term standardized by ISO.

Key term(s)
  • probing rocket

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Télédétection
DEF

Fusée suborbitale, non habitée, équipée, d’appareils de mesure.

OBS

Par métonymie, on peut bien sûr utiliser le terme sonde au sens de fusée (en anglais rocketsonde pour sounding rocket); cette façon de s’exprimer, quoique courante, est imprécise.

OBS

Les fusées-sondes recueillent des données jusqu’à soixante-quinze kilomètres d’altitude. Au-delà, on utilise les satellites.

OBS

pluriel : fusées-sondes.

OBS

fusée-sonde; fusée météorologique : termes normalisés par l’ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones, instrumentos y equipos meteorológicos
  • Naves espaciales
  • Teledetección
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Record 4 2004-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Remote Sensing
DEF

An instrument package carried aloft by a meteorological rocket to make a measure one or more weather elements in a sounding of the upper atmosphere, at altitudes usually higher than can be obtained by radiosonde or aircraft.

Key term(s)
  • rocket-sonde

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Télédétection
DEF

Instrument de sondage emporté en altitude par une fusée.

OBS

Selon le dictionnaire «Protection de la couche d’ozone» [S-53-21], une fusée-sonde est aussi «le véhicule de la sonde (sounding rocket, en anglais)».

Key term(s)
  • fusée sonde

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones, instrumentos y equipos meteorológicos
  • Teledetección
DEF

Instrumento de sondeo transportado a las capas superiores de la atmósfera por un cohete.

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Record 5 2002-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
DEF

Measurement of one or more upper-air meteorological elements by means of rocket-borne instruments.

CONT

Most meteorological rocket observations, also known as rocket soundings, are made from a rocketsonde probe that typically contains a temperature sensor. Other thermodynamic variables such as air pressure and density can be computed from the collected temperature data using appropriate thermodynamic equations or measured by use of special on-board pressure and density gauges.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
DEF

Mesure d’un ou plusieurs éléments météorologiques en altitude au moyen d’instruments emportés par une fusée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones, instrumentos y equipos meteorológicos
DEF

Determinación de uno o más elementos meteorológicos por medio de instrumentos transportados por un cohete.

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Record 6 2002-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Air Pollution
OBS

The MT-135-72 and 73 were launched at 11:00 on September 18th ..., with the major purposes of measuring vertical profiles of stratospheric ozone density. ... Ozone observation began with the 52 rocket in 1990, and has been conducted for 11 years of solar cycle with the experiment this time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Pollution de l'air
DEF

Opération qui consiste à mesurer, au moyen d’une sonde emportée par fusée, les variations en altitude de la concentration en ozone atmosphérique.

Spanish

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Record 7 2002-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
DEF

High-altitude measurement system using a sounding rocket carried aloft by a large balloon and fired near the maximum height of the balloon.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
DEF

Système de mesure à haute altitude utilisant une fusée de sondage emportée par un grand ballon et mise à feu près de l'altitude maximale que peut atteindre le ballon.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones, instrumentos y equipos meteorológicos
DEF

Sistema de sondeo en altitud.

OBS

Consiste en transportar un cohete sonda a gran altura por medio de un globo de grandes dimensiones. El cohete se enciende cuando el globo está cercano a la altitud máxima que puede alcanzar.

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Record 8 1995-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Earth-based Stations
  • Satellite Telecommunications

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Stations terriennes
  • Télécommunications par satellite

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de monografías
  • Estaciones terrenas
  • Telecomunicaciones por satélite
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