Apr 2 1962
From The Space Library
OSO 1, launched March 7, 1962, was reported by NASA to be performing well. As of this date, 360 telemetry data tapes had been recorded from 403 orbits. Tapes would require about one year for complete analysis of data.
Dr. John A. Simpson, of the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, said in a Voice of America broadcast that space probes and satellites have offered the scientist the first tools for direct measurement and study of electrodynamics in the interplanetary medium. EXPLORER X, for example, had recorded a density of protons in space substantially below predicted values and "almost one million billion times less than the best vacuum that man creates in the laboratory.
"Such experiments in space emphasize the fact that there occur phenomena in nature which cannot be scaled down without losing the essence of their physical properties." USAF announced it would build a new phased-array radar system that would have a multiple-track capability and quicker reflexes than present radar for the detection, tracking, identification, and cataloging of satellites. Contractor would be Bendix Aviation Corp.
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