What goes up, must come down or is Barium lost in space?
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Blamont"(...)
The first operation started badly: Two barium burners (developed by the new group in Garching) were placed on Centaures launched in November 1962 from the French naval base at the Ile du Levant on the Riviera— both rockets failed (the first failures in the whole development history of the rocket…). Two other Centaures were used with complete success in Hammaguir in May 1963. (...)" (page 180)
REIMAR LÜST*
Barium cloud experiments in the upper atmosphere
in: Reimar Lüst, The Century of Space Science, 179–187
© 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in The Netherlands.
*Research institution:
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany
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