Minutes of a meeting of the Satellite Experiments Working Group on RadioTransmission and Galactic Noise, British National Committee on Space Research Present: Professor W J G Beynon, Chairman; Dr J S Hey; Dr R C Jennison; Dr T RKaiser; Mr G Ratcliffe; Mr J A Ratcliffe; Mr M O Robins; Professor M Ryle; Dr F Graham Smith; Dr K Weekes Mr E D Dracott (AWRE), MrsJ Hazelgrove (Jodrell Bank) and Mr F Horner (RRS) attended by invitation. 1. Minutes 2. Matters arising from the Minutes 2a Minute 6 (b) - Consideration of Jodrell Bank Proposals 3. Revision of the Terms of Reference of the Working Group 4. Award of Grants to Dr T R Kaiser and Professor W G Beynon 5. Revision of Space Research Grant made to Dr F G Smith 6. Progress Report on Radio Astronomy Experiment for Scout II 7. Project Westford 8. Proposals from the Radio Reserch Station 8a Statement by the Director of 9 May 1961 8b Collaborative Rocket Experiment 8c Proposed Experiments in Rockets and Satellites 9. Proposals for Satellite Experiments 9a Proposed Jodrell Bank Radio Astronomy Satellite Experiment 9b Extension of the Radio Astronomy Experiment in Scout II 9c Recommendation for Radio Experiments in Scout Satellite, S.III 10. Commonwealth Co-operation 10a British Commonwealth Working Group on Satellite Ionospheric Sounding (Topside) 10b Reports on the NASA and Canadian Topside Sounding Experiments 10c Report by Dr Jennison on Discussion in Australia in October 1960 11. The ionospheric Beacon Satellilte S.45 12. COSPAR Meeting, Florence, April 1961 13. Standard Frequency Services in the UK 14. Any Other Business 15. Date of Next Meeting It was agreed that the next meeting of the Group should be held at 2.30 p, on 26 July 1961 Summary of Recommendations; a. that the proposals for five RRS rocket experiments be accepted, and provision made for the plasma and field strength experiments to be conducted up to 100 Km in the United Kingdom b. that the proposal for the two RRS satellite experiments be accepted, and provision made for their inclusion in the same satellite c. that an assistant be appointed to work at Woomera on thre rocket programmes if such a course is acceptable to W.R.E. d. that there was great scientific advantage in having a magnetometer, Es and sodium cloud experiments conducted with the same rocket vehicle. 30 May 1961